Socialmedia

Rise of the Internet, Web and Social Media

By dominiqueboud

  • Resemblance of Social Media

    Resemblance of Social Media
    Samuel Morse sent a telegraph from Washington D.C. to Baltimore. This was the first resemblance of social media.

  • Packet-Switching Technology

    At MIT Lincoln Lab, two computers were able to communicate with one another using packet-switching technology.

  • First Email Sent

    First Email Sent
    Ray Tomlinson sent the first email to himself. It was an email sent from one computer to another computer that was sitting right beside it.

  • Invention of the Internet

    Researchers began to assemble the "network of networks" and invented the modern day internet.

  • First Online Chat

    First Online Chat
    Internet Relay Chat (IRC) allowed users to send messages back and forth in real time over the internet. This was one of the first chat session to allow more than two people into a chat.

  • First Social Networking Site

    First Social Networking Site
    Six degrees was one of the first sites to allow you to create profiles and "friend" each other. By 2001 it had about 1 million users.

  • Pioneer of Social Media

    Pioneer of Social Media
    Friendster was the hottest social networking back in the day. Friendster is considered to be the pioneer of social media.

  • LinkedIn

    LinkedIn
    In May of 2003, LinkedIn was created. LinkedIn is a professional social media site as it allows for people to network with one another on a professional level to eventually help better their career.

  • Myspace

    Myspace
    Later in August of 2003, myspace launched. At it's peak had 75.9 million vistors

  • Facebook

    Facebook
    One of the most popular social media sites launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. It now has over 2.4 billion users.

  • Gmail

    Gmail
    One of the worlds largest emailing services launched in early 2004. There are now 1.5 billion users

  • YouTube

    YouTube
    One of the biggest video sharing platforms launched in 2005. Youtube allows people to share and watch video content

  • Twitter

    Twitter
    A more unique platform came along in 2006. Twitter is different than the other social media platforms of its time because it only allows users to share up to 140 characters.

  • WhatsApp

    WhatsApp
    WhatsApp, another very popular social media site, launched in 2009. It is unlike other social media sites because it doesn't have very many ads. It is a message platform

  • Instagram

    Instagram
    Instagram was one of the first social media sites that gave Facebook some competition. It is a site that allows you to share and create photos for others to see what you are doing.

  • WeChat

    WeChat
    WeChat launched in January of 2011. It is now one of the most world wide sites. It is a combination of many different social media sites. It is most popular in Asian countries.

  • Snapchat

    Snapchat
    Snapchat launched later in 2011. Snapchat created the idea of stories. Stories are shared photos that only last a certain amount of time. Stories are now seen on many different social media sites.

  • Vine

    Vine
    Vine was a new video hosting service. It was different from YouTube because it only allowed short videos.

  • Tik Tok

    Tik Tok
    Vine was bought by Twitter. The next closest thing to vine launched in 2017 and is very popular still today. Tik Tok is another short video social media site. It has over 800 million users worldwide.

  • Social Media Users

    Today there are over 3.8 billion social media users. To put that into perspective, about half of the world is a social media user.