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Creation of Email
-Ray Tomlinson invented internet based email.
-There were hundreds of military users of email because ARPANET eventually encouraged it.
-John Vital developed some software to organize email. -
Online Community
- Jim Ellis and Tom Truscott creates Usenet Newsgroups’, created hierarchies of subjects with the intention of segregating subject matters in a clear way avoiding irrelevant information being subjected to the user who was only interested in a specific topic.
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Interface Intergration
-Steve Dorner invents Eudora, an application that gave a popular face to email by providing a graphical user interface for email management. -
YOU'VE GOT MAIL
-1989: The first release of Lotus Notes email software. 35,000 copies are sold in the first year.
-1989: AOL launches its first software for internet and email. -
What's Classmates
-Classmates was a site to keep tabs on your schoolmates, and it was one of the first to find connection points between old pals. -
Microsoft & Hotmail Joins the Chat
-Microsoft releases Internet Mail and News 1.0, a feature of its third release of Internet Explorer. This is later renamed Outlook.
- Hotmail was launched as the first web-based email service. -
Yahoooooooo
-Yahoo mail launches.
-About 10 million users worldwide have free web mail accounts. -
The O.G of Social Media
-Andrew Weinreich formed Six Degrees, users could send messages, post on bulletin boards, and “friend” each other. Additionally, the Six Degrees landing page expresses that users can build professional networks or connect with groups of friends based on their interests. -
Acquisition Opprotunity
-Microsoft buys Hotmail for $400 million. -
A Rise & Fall
-Friendster, founded by Jonathan Abrams in 2002, was one of the first social networking sites where users could create profiles, upload photos, connect with friends, write comments and send messages to each other. Once competitors emerged, more user friendly Friendster lost traction. :( -
MySpace Take Over
-MySpace was the first social media platform for many people.
-MySpace introduced people to coding.
-With simple HTML and CSS skills, you could turn your MySpace page into a virtual room or a digital school locker, a place that showed off your unique personality and interests. -
Google Enters Chat
-Google introduces Gmail to the public. -
The Evolution
-Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, Facebook was initially created as a platform for Harvard University students to connect and share their profiles with one another. The project quickly expanded to other Ivy League institutions and eventually to colleges and universities worldwide. -
Home Video Central
- Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the American e-commerce company PayPal. They had the idea that ordinary people would enjoy sharing their “home videos.”
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Twitter Fingers
-Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams created Twitter, which was originally a side project stemming from the podcasting tool Odeo. That month, Dorsey would send the first Tweet that read, “just setting up my twttr.” -
The Take Over
-Google overtakes all other email providers and continues to grow. -
Say Cheese
-The first photo to be uploaded on the app is titled “test” and shows a candid image of a stray dog. Initially, Instagram was available only for iPhone. -
International Pandemonium
-ByteDance created TikTok as an overseas version ,TikTok was launched in the international market in September 2017. ByteDance spent nearly $1 billion to purchase Musically. Musically was a social media video platform that allowed users to create short lip-sync and comedy videos, initially released in August 2014. TikTok merged with Musically on 2 August 2018 with existing accounts and data consolidated into one app, keeping the title TikTok.