A brief history of App launch dates

  • MySpace

    MySpace
    Founded by Tom Anderson, Jon Hart, and Chris DeWolfe. Launched on August 1, 2003. MySpace is a social networking website where you can post your favourite music, photos, videos, and write blog posts. It was the largest networking app in the world from the year 2004-2010.
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.
    Launched on February 4, 2004. Facebook is an American social media service and is used as a type of social networking. You can post links, videos, photos and write posts and share them with your friends or family.
  • YouTube

    YouTube
    Founded by Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley. Launched on February 14, 2005. YouTube is an app in which you upload videos of something or someone to show the rest of the world, you can also watch other's videos.
  • WhatsApp

    WhatsApp
    Founded by Jan Koum. Launched in 2009. WhatsApp is a texting service between mobile phones as a replacement for the regular SMS text messages.
  • Instagram

    Instagram
    Founded by Kevin Systrom. Launched on October 6, 2010. Instagram is a photo- and video sharing social networking service which is owned by Facebook.
  • Kik

    Kik
    Founded by Ted Livingston. Launched on October 19, 2010. Kik is a mobile messaging application where you can message your friends and meet new people.
  • Snapchat

    Snapchat
    Founded by Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown and Bobby Murphy.
    Launched on September 16, 2011. Snapchat is a mobile messaging application used to share photos, videos, text, and drawings.
  • Tinder

    Tinder
    Founded by Sean Rad, Jonathan Badeen, Justin Mateen, Joe Munoz, Dinesh Moorjani, and Whitney Wolfe. Launched on September 12, 2012. Tinder is an online dating app that matches couples based on their physical attraction to one another.