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Preoccupied with 1985
What happened to sitcoms and game shows...? They turned into chat rooms and blog posts, who's going to tell Bowling for Soup? -
1997
Six Degrees was created to bring together people with common interests. -
When we started to connect
LinkedIn was built to bring together professionals from all over the world. -
Do you like my profile song?
That was a question asked around the world as we started to make our Myspace accounts, we had to make sure our song was cool! -
Want to see your cousins accross the country?
Skype brought people together by letting them video chat, it became a new, cool way to hangout with someone without actually being with them. -
Getting Personal
Facebook was created to help students work together...no one had any idea what it would grow to become. -
24/7 Videos
Remember the home video shows you used to watch on TV where they would show you all the crazy stupid things people were doing? What if I told you that you could watch all of the videos 24/7? Hello, YouTube. -
*what im doing every second of everyday*
Twitter took social media to a whole new level by giving followers an insight to what people were doing every second of every day -
A picture is worth a thousand words...
or 1 million users in less than three months. Instagram gain users faster than any other social media sight before it. -
Is every picture really worth a thousand words?
Really? Even the ugly ones we send to our friends on Snapchat? These pictures last and disappear creating a new was to chat with friends and show them what you're doing. -
A whole new way to watch the news
We aren't home to watch the news at 5pm so someone needed to find a new way to give it to us. Periscope lets people watch the news instantly and learn about other things going on. -
Who's trying to fall in love?
We've all heard a good Tinder story or two...do you have one? -
The more the merrier
HouseParty lets people video chat with up to 6 people at once bringing a whole new face to FaceTime.
