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Usenet
Posts news to news groups -
BBS
first site with a login -
Compuserve
first chat -
PCC
online portals and news -
Internet relay race
file sharing, link sharing, and communicating -
ICQ
Welcome to ‘ICQ’, which allowed for multiple people to share the same chat, introduced multiplayer games, made emoticons and created the beloved abbreviations “lol” and “brb”. To me, ICQ acts as one of the power players to modern social media, yet doesn’t hold much recognition. It’s arguably because of ICQ that emoji’s are so popular today, or why countless abbreviations are commonplace online. -
resemblence
glimpses of first social media, profiles and adding friends -
Journal
blogs and forum, create groups and interact -
Wikipedia
online free encyclopedia was lauched -
Youtube
The brilliant and now-controversial YouTube is released, which is described as the “first organized video streaming and video sharing social media platform”. Originally bearing only videos of staffers endeavors around the world, the platform quickly established regular and prominent users, aptly named “YouTubers” and is now the most used video-platform in the world. . -
Facebook
‘The Facebook’ was originally opened only for Harvard University students created by then-student Mark Zuckerberg. It was then opened to neighboring universities, then ones nationally and then…Well, Facebook became a thing. Whilst I didn’t use The Facebook, one of my ‘bosses’ did and recently told us of his early stories on the platformer and how, even for the most brilliant of academic minds, the newest in social media sites blew their minds.