History of Social Media Timeline

  • Compuserve

    Compuserve
    CompuServe was the first major commercial online service provider in the United States.
  • CBBS

    CBBS
    Christensen and Randy Suess created the first computerized bulletin board system to make announcements and plan meetups with friends
  • Usenet

    Usenet
    Usenet is a collection of newsgroups where the users can post messages and these posted messages are distributed via Usenet servers.
  • GENIE

    GENIE
    GENie was an online service created for GE.
  • ICQ

    ICQ
    ICQ is an instant messaging client that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis.
  • Six Degrees

    Six Degrees
    Six Degrees was based on the Web of Contacts model of social networking.
  • Open Diary

    Open Diary
    Open Diary was notable for a lot of reasons.
  • Live Journal

    Live Journal
    LiveJournal is a Russian social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal or diary.
  • MySpace

    MySpace
    Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.
  • Twitter

    Twitter
    Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
  • Whatsapp

    Whatsapp
    WhatsApp Messenger is a freeware and cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP service owned by Facebook.
  • Snapchat

    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
    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
    Vine was a short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips.
  • pheed

    pheed
    Pheed, a patented mobile pay-per-view technology and social networking service that competed with Facebook, Twitter, and related sites.