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Usernet
Computers Connected to the network,
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Commercial Online Services/ CompuServe
CompuServe was the first company to incorporate a chat program called CB simulator into their service in 1980. It was prohibitively expensive for many, with charges of $6/hour plus long-distance fees that often made the service run $30/hour or more. -
Bulletin Board
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Delphi
Delphi was founded in 1981 with the goal of providing online access to information. By 1982, it featured message boards, e-mail and chat rooms as well. In 1992, Delphi became one of the first national online services to offer consumer access to many elements of the Internet, such as telnet, Usenet and gopher. Around this time, Delphi membership peaked at 125,000. The service languished in 1993 after being bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation -
GEnie
GEnie was an early online service created by a General Electric subsidiary (GEIS) in 1985. It was a text-based service, and considered the first viable commercial competition to CompuServe. The service was created to make use of idle time-sharing mainframes after normal U.S. business hours. Without the support it needed from General Electric, GEnie was unable to maintain its momentum and was sold it off in 1996. -
AOL
AOL started with a gaming site for Commodore computer users in the mid-1980s. The first service, Quantum Link (or Q-Link), was launched in 1985, featuring graphical chat environments. Quantum rebranded the service America Online, popularly abbreviated as AOL in 1991. In 1993, AOL opened up access to Usenet newsgroups, and followed up with the ability to send e-mail from AOL addresses to the Internet at large. By 1995, the AOL client software included a full-fledged Web browser and at its pea -
Prodigy
Prodigy launched nationwide in 1990, growing quickly in popularity for its color interface and lower cost. Instead of charging by the hour, Prodigy offered tiered blocks of services for a flat monthly fee, starting at $9.95. Prodigy grew from 100,000 to half a million subscribers in the first year, then doubled to almost a million by 1991. -
ICQ
ICQ ("I Seek You") was first developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996, then bought by America Online, and since April 2010 owned by Digital Sky Technologies. There are still over 42 million active users of ICQ today. -
Six Degrees
Six Degrees was launched in 1997 and was the first modern social network. It allowed users to create a profile and to become friends with other users. While the site is no longer functional, it had around a million members at its peak before being shut down in 2001. -
Friendster
Founded in 2002, Friendster is still a very active social network, with over 90 million registered users and 60+ million unique visitors each month. Friendster operated by allowing people to discover their friends and then friends-of-friends, and so on to expand their networks. -
HI5
Hi5 is another major social network, established in 2003 and currently boasting more than 60 million active members. On Hi5, a user's network consists of not only their own contacts, but also second (friends of friends) and third (friends of friends of friends) degree contacts. Hi5 has a large user base in parts of Asia, Latin America and Central Africa. -
LinkedIn
LinkedIn was founded in 2003 and was one of the first mainstream social networks devoted to business. Originally, LinkedIn allowed users to post a profile (basically a resume) and to interact through private messaging. Gradually, other features have been added, including groups, question and answer forums, and advanced profile features, including real-time updates. -
Myspace
MySpace was founded in 2003 and by 2006 had grown to be the most popular social network in the world. MySpace differentiated itself from competitors by allowing users to completely customize the look of their profiles. Users could also post music from artists on MySpace and embed videos from other sites on their profiles. -
Facebook
Facebook started out as a Harvard-only social network in 2004, it quickly expanded to other schools, then to high schools, businesses and eventually everyone by 2006. In 2008 Facebook became the most popular social networking site, surpassing MySpace, and it continues to grow (Chapman, 2009).
