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Period: 2001 BCE to 2013 BCE
The Golden Era of Social Media
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1988 BCE
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
The entire system of global servers, where clients and people chat online in global chat rooms, sharing files, links and keeping in touch. -
Period: 1988 BCE to 1999 BCE
The Medieval Era of Social Media
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1984 BCE
Prodigy Communications Corporations
A pioneered online service providing people with a multiple services, news, games, shopping, travel, bulletin boards...etc. -
1980 BCE
Bulletin Board System
A computer server running custom software allowing users to connect to the system using a terminal program. -
1980 BCE
CompuServe
First service to offer electronic mail and technical support to personal computer users; And offer real-time chat with its CB Simulator. -
1979 BCE
Usenet
The early non-centralized computer network for the discussion of particular topics, news and sharing files via newsgroups. -
Period: 1979 BCE to 1984 BCE
The Primitive Era of Social Media
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Introduction to ICQ
A text-based messenger with a huge market of online users. Allowing the multi-users to chat, using emoticons and abbreviations 'LOL'. And also, transferring files, using searchable directories and more. -
Six Degrees
Considered as being the first social media, where you could, like today, have your own profile and add friends. -
Live Journal
Free service social network allowing users to express themselves by creating and customising their own 'live journal'. -
Wikipedia
Free Encyclopaedia -
Friendster
A social networking gaming service where users were able to meet new people. -
Hi5
Social networking where you could customise your profile, add friends and communicate with them via forums and group chats. Plus, album photos, music and videos. -
Myspace
Social network allowing people to have/ create a personal profile, where you can chat with friends, share photos, videos, music, create blogs. -
Orkut
Google's first creation/ attempt in social networking services, where users could find old and new friends, and chat with them.
It was closed/ dissolved in September, 2014. -
The Facebook
Social network, only available to Harvard University students. -
Flickr
Website/ blog style, where users can share personal photos and rate the photos of others. -
Youtube
Social network where people share/upload videos -
Reddit
Social news-media website and forum, where users can upload stories, share link articles and where readers can interact with each other, and give their approval. -
Twitter
Microblogging site where people can interact with each other by posting short messages, also with videos and photos (called tweets) and re-tweet them on their page. -
Facebook
Social network where you can create your personal profile, share photos, videos, personal interests...etc. Also add friends, chat with them (messages, call or video chat). -
Tumblr
Social network - microblogging platform where people can post short contents (like, texts, photos, article links...). And where people interact with each other (re-posting, like, follow, message...). -
WhatsApp
Application for smartphones, where users can chat with others via instant text messages, but also share documents, images, video, user location and audio messages. -
Pinterest
Mobile application platform where people share photos. -
Instagram
Network, used most of the time on smartphones. Platform where users can take and/ or share, photos, videos with others. -
Snapchat
Application for smartphones where users can communicate via sending pictures and short videos which will be deleted after a certain number of seconds. -
Tinder
Discovery service application where users communicate depending on their mutual interests, and where they can eventually find a matching partner. -
Pheed
Social media platform pay per view for smartphones. -
Vine
Service application where people can share short video clips.
