Significant Times in Social Media

Launched of Linkedin

Dec 28, 2002

Linkedin was launched in late 2002. The founders were Reid Hoffman and a team of old colleagues from SocialNet and PayPal. Source: https://ourstory.linkedin.com/

Launched of Myspace

Aug 1, 2003

Myspace is a social networking website where we can interact with our friends and family. It started to die out after 2009.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace

Released of Skype

Aug 29, 2003

Skype is used for users to make video and voice calls to each other, users can also text as well. Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype

Start of Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

Facebook is created by Mark Zuckerberg when he was a student at Harvard. The site became an instant hit with the school then with other Ivy Leagues. Facebook has become the top social media in the world now with billions of users.
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3

Launched of YouTube

Feb 14, 2005

YouTube was created by three former Paypal employees- Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. YouTube has continued to grow since they were released. It allows the user to subscribe to other users as well as watch videos and comment on them.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube

Founded of Reddit

Jun 23, 2005

Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. You are able to post links, text, and image and users can like it or dislike it. Their service is worldwide and its rank number 6.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit

Launched of Twitter

Mar 21, 2006

Twitter is an American online news and social networking. Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams are the ones we created Twitter.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

Founding of Tumblr

Feb 19, 2007

Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp. This is a site for users to have short blogs of themselves. They have about 555 million users monthly.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblr

Beginning of 9GAG

Jul 1, 2008

9gag is a Hong Kong-based online social media website. It has a collection of memes for users to enjoy. It was co-founded by 5 students from Hong Kong University.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9GAG

Founded of Foursqaure

Mar 11, 2009

Foursquare is a local search-and-discovery service mobile app. Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai are both founders. This app allows the user to found locations nearby when they turn on the current location. The app with offered choices of different places.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foursquare

Launched of Instagram

Oct 6, 2010

Instagram is a picture and video sharing app that is now owned by Facebook. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Users are able to chat with other users and unload pictures and short videos.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram

Launched of Snapchat

2011

Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app it was created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown. They were former students at Stanford University. Nowadays Snapchat has about 187 million users.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat