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First Email
Sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson, the email was simply a test message to himself. The email was sent from one computer to another computer sitting right beside it but it traveled via ARPANET, a network of computers that was the precursor to the Internet.
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History of Social Media
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Usenet_
Usenet is a worldwide system for Internet discussion that consists of a set of newsgroups that are organized by subject. Users post articles or messages to these newsgroups which are then broadcast to other computer systems, most of which now connect via the Internet. Usenet was conceived in 1979, making It is one of the oldest network communications systems still in use today and is the predecessor of many of the forums online today.
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World Wide Web
The term World Wide Web (www) refers to the collection of public Web sites connected to the Internet worldwide, together with the client devices such as computers and cell phones that access its content. For many years it has become known simply as "the Web."
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The 1st Blog
It’s generally recognized that the first blog was Links.net, created by Justin Hall, while he was a Swarthmore College student in 1994. At that time they weren’t called blogs, and he just referred to it as his personal homepage.
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Classmates.com
Social service founded to reconnect former elementary, high school and college classmates. The goal is to reunite friends and love interests. The site uses technology to rekindle real-life social relationships. Nine years before Facebook.
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Ask.com
Early search engine (formerly known as AskJeeves.com) - lets users ask questions in everyday talk rather than keywords.
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AIM
AIM (short for AOL Instant Messenger) is one of the world's most popular instant messaging clients. The free AIM program software lets users send instant messages to anyone on their "buddy list."
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Open Diary
Open Diary was the first website that brought online journal keepers together as a community, as users had the ability to read each other's journals and leave comments on them. To date, the site has hosted more than five million diaries since launch, with more than half a million diaries currently being used.
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Wikipedia
The world's first open source, collaborative, free online encyclopedia created by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia users created over 20,000 articles in the first year. Anybody can ask a question, anybody can answer a question, and the best answers are voted up and float to the top.
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Meetup.com
The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 inspired Scott Heiferman to find a way to use the web to help people connect. Meetup is an online social networking service, intended for people to organize and/or join group meetings in real life.
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Friendster.com
Social networking website that connects individuals across the world with the hopes of helping them develop friendships which is considered the predecessor to similar sites Myspace and Facebook.
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LinkedIn
LinkedIn is the largest professional networking site available today providing a way to connect with other professionals and help you stay in contact with millions of users. LinkedIn is strictly used for exchanging knowledge, ideas, and employment opportunities and has increasingly become a leading tool for helping individuals expand their networks as well as find jobs in their field.
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myspace.com
Social networking site that teens and young adults migrated to. In the first month, 1 million users signed up.
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WordPress
WordPress is currently the fastest growing CMS software. Initially, WordPress was largely associated with blogs as its main functionality was to allow easy blog experience. Yet, over time, its developers expanded its functionality to allow the creation of more complicated websites and grew it into a content management system rather than a blogging tool.
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Facebook
Facebook is a social networking site that makes it easy for you to connect and share with your family and friends online. Originally designed for college students, Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg while he was enrolled at Harvard University. Today, Facebook is the world's largest social network, with more than 1 billion users worldwide.
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flickr.com
Flickr is a photo sharing platform and social network where users upload photos for others to see.
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YouTube
YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos.
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Twitter
Twitter is a free social networking microblogging service that allows registered members to broadcast short posts called tweets and generates over 4,000 tweets per second.
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Spotify
Spotify is a service that offers access to over 20 million songs for free by providing the listener with legal access to a large variety of music. Spotify operates by making agreements with many different record labels to access their catalogues to listeners access to a large variety of music available for legal streaming. All the music on Spotify is there with the agreement of the record label.
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tumblr.com
Tumblr is a network of millions of user-generated, personal Web sites. It's part blogging platform (like Wordpress, Blogger or Posterous) and part social networking service, letting users create and post their own original content.
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Groupon
Groupon is a deal-of-the-day recommendation service for consumers. Every 24 hours, Groupon broadcasts an electronic coupon for a restaurant or store in your city, recommending that local service while also offering you a 40% to 60% discount if you purchase that service.
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foursquare.com
Foursquare is primarily for letting your friends know where you are and figuring out where they are.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-hit-location-based-social-app-foursquare-works-2010-1 -
Google Buzz
Google Buzz was a social networking, microblogging and messaging tool that was developed by Google and integrated into their web-based email program, Gmail. Buzz was discontinued on December 15, 2011 and superseded by Google+.
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Google+
Google+ is a Google social networking platform designed to replicate the way people interact offline more closely than is the case in other social networking services, such as Facebook and Twitter. The project’s slogan is “Real-life sharing rethought for the web.”
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Snapchat
Snapchat is a free mobile messaging application used to share photos, videos, text, and drawings. It has become hugely popular in a very short space of time, especially with young people.
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A Prediction for Social Media in 2018
Chatbots are going to be one of the biggest things in social media marketing in 2018. Facebook has reported that over 100,000 chatbots are currently using the messenger platform and this number is set to grow.
https://www.business2community.com/social-media/future-social-media-32-experts-share-2018-predictions-01973207
