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Compuserve
CompuServe was the first major commercial online service provider in the United States. -
CBBS
Christensen and Randy Suess created the first computerized bulletin board system to make announcements and plan meetups with friends -
Usenet
Usenet is a collection of newsgroups where the users can post messages and these posted messages are distributed via Usenet servers. -
GENIE
GENie was an online service created for GE. -
ICQ
ICQ is an instant messaging client that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis. -
Six Degrees
Six Degrees was based on the Web of Contacts model of social networking. -
Open Diary
Open Diary was notable for a lot of reasons. -
Live Journal
LiveJournal is a Russian social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal or diary. -
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. -
Facebook
American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. -
Twitter
Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". -
Whatsapp
WhatsApp Messenger is a freeware and cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP service owned by Facebook. -
Snapchat
Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app popular around the world created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, former students at Stanford University, and developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc. -
Tinder
Tinder is a location-based social search mobile app that allows users to like or dislike other users, and allows users to chat if both parties swiped to the right. -
Vine
Vine was a short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. -
pheed
Pheed, a patented mobile pay-per-view technology and social networking service that competed with Facebook, Twitter, and related sites.