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You've got mail!
The first electronical message (email) was sent between two computers sitting right next to each other. -
Beginning
Stewart Brand creates The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, "The Well" for short. It was the first social networking site created, which paved the way for all future social networking sites. -
The Cities of Geo
In 1994, David Bohnett and John Rezner created Geocities ons= Beverly Hills Internet (BHI). Site users selected a "city" in which to place their web pages. The "cities" were named after real cities or regions according to their content — for example, computer-related sites were placed in "SiliconValley" -
Dear Diary
LiveJournal was started on April 15, 1999 by Brad Fitzpatrick as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities -
Travelling the Globe.com
TheGlobe.com was founded by two Cornell students, Stephan Paternot and Todd Krizelman, in 1995. It gave users the freedom to personalize online experiences by publishing their own content and interacting wih others with similar interests. -
Messages in and Instant
In 1997, American Online (AOL) was the first company to launch instant messaging, enabling users to have real time chat conversations. Instant messaging laid the foundation for texting. -
Six Degrees of Seperation
Sixdegrees.com was named after the six degrees of separation concept and allowed users to list friends, family members and acquaintances both on the site and externally; external contacts were invited to join the site. It was founded by Andrew Weinreich in late 1997. -
The Earth at Night
BlackPlanet was launched on September 1, 2001 by Omar Wasow, an internet analyst, who in 2001 was running ‘New York Online’ a pre-web community he started in 1993 from his living room in Brooklyn. BlackPlanet is an African-American community website, or Social Network Site (SNS), and started as a place for matchmaking and job postings but also has forums for discussion on political and social issues -
Are we Friends?
Friendster was founded by computer programmer Jonathan Abrams and Peter Chin in 2002 in Morgan Hill, California. The Friendster craze was way before the creation, launch and adoption of MySpace, Facebook, and others. Friendster was founded to create a safer, more effective environment for meeting new people by browsing user profiles and connecting to friends, friends of friends and so on. -
MySpace
After the 2002 launch of Friendster, several eUniverse employees with Friendster accounts saw its potential and decided to mimic the more popular features of the social networking website, in August 2003. Within 10 days, the first version of Myspace was ready for launch. -
Facebook
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[8] The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. -
Twitter
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched in July of that year. Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets", and images. -
Tumblr
David Karp founded Tumblr in 2007 with Marco Arment as lead developer. Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumblelog private. The service emphasizes ease of use