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Origin of Social Media
This day, social media began with some electronic dots and dashes in a telegraph machine.
Samuel Morse send a message with a telegraph machine from Baltimore to Washington D.C. in code Morse, proving his scientific achievement: Internet -
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Pre-internet roots
This was the period before the nowadays internet. -
First digital network
The origin of modern internet appear with the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network — the ARPANET.
this earlier digital network made it by the USA Department of Defense, allowed scientist for differents universities to share: softwares, hardwares... -
Compuserve
In 1979, Compuserve became the first e-mail site -
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1980´s - 1990´s internet rise
Thanks to the internet rise, enabled the introduction of online communication services such as CompuServe, America Online...
That introduce the ussers to a earlier e-mail, chat etc... -
The precursor of the internet
The precursor of the internet born when the National Science Foundation launch a nationwide digital network known as the NSFNET -
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Modern Internet
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First social media platform
the first true social media platform was launched.
It was called Sixdegrees and it was closed in the 2000 -
Blogs and Weblogs
This digital social communication, began to gain popularity in 1999 with the launch of the LiveJournal publishing site. -
Friends Reunited
In the same year as the death of SixDegrees, the Pankhurst created the first Britain´s social networking site while they are trying to catch up some schoolfriends -
LinkedIn
LinkedIn was founded as a networking site for career-minded professionals.
By 2020, grown to more than 675 million users worlwide.
Being one of the best networking sites for job seekers -
Friendster
In 2003, Jonathan Abrams and Ross Mackinnon created Friendster.
A social media used for: dates, events, hobbies...
In 2018 finally closed -
Myspace
Myspace was some type of pre-Facebook site were you can share: music, videos...
Unfortunally, ended up beign eclipsed by Facebook -
Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg, while he was studying at Harvard University, he created Facebook, the first world famous social media where you can share: photos, videos...
Nowadays, Facebook is the largest social networking site, with more than 3,065 million users monthly. -
Youtube
The video-sharing website began.
The founders met while they were working on Paypal.
Nowadays, Youtube become a reference for video-sharing apps, also, Youtube have more than 2 billion users since 2020 -
Reddit
Also in 2005, a site where you can sare messages, images.... born.
Steven Huffman and Alexis Ohanian set up Reddit in 2005, even thought it was a big boom, nowadays become a secundary site, eclipsed by others like Twitter, Facebook... -
Facebook
Jack Dorsey and some friends set up one of the most famous microblogging site Twitter.
A site where you can share images, videos, messages... too -
WhatsApp
In 2009, 2 ex-employers of Yahoo Brian Acton and Jan Koum, found WhatsApp.
WhatsApp is a site where you can send messages from people around the world (And share images and videos...)
Nowadays, WhatsApp is probably the most used app, If you don´t trust me, think, How many times do you use it today? -
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Rise of mobile apps
Mobile apps became to be very popular since 2009 -
Instagram
In 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger create an app for make photos named Burbn.
With the years, Burbn become very popular and evolved into a famous app where you can share images and videos... Called Instagram -
Twitch
The nowadays livestream app called Twitch, was founded in 2011, as an expansion of Justin.tv, an app dedicated to sports and video games.
Today, Twitch have 140 million users mensually and hundreds of streamers every day, accumulating 2 billion hours of viewing every month. -
Snapchat
Evan Spiegel and two friends set up Snapchat, an app that also shares images and videos with other people (Like other apps) But, with the difference that they self-delete after a short period of time.
In 2017, Snapchat had 166 million users daily, but yet, it become a secundary app -
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Rise of the livestreaming
In 2015, apps started to offering livestreaming, a new way of making content.
In this period, famous apps like Facebook and Twitter start to include it -
Tik Tok
Their first name was Douyin, and it was only available in China.
In 2018, Douyin became available in all the world, under the name of Tik Tok.
Tik Tok became famous very fast, and nowadays, Tik Tok is the most downloaded app with 672 million users around the world. -
From Twitter to X
The multi-millionarie inversor Elon Musk, buy Twitter, changing his logo and name to X
Having many criticism due to a mass layoff off employees. -
Nowadays
Nowadays, the social media apps and the internet in general, become very popular all around the world, with 5.037 million of users, the 62,3% of the total population.
And like everything in this world, the apps also evolve very fast with the passage of the years, maybe in 10 years there is a new social media app that will eclipse the other apps, Or some actual famous app like Tik Tok dissapear. Who knows?