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Telegraph was invented
Allowed messages from one person to another over a long distance without using horses or people to deliver the message . Overtime this developed into a technology that we use today with the modern cell phones . This was the original idea of a cell phone that could open up the idea of 2 or more way communication platforms . -
The telephone
This discovery in 1890 started a new idea and concept of communication between one person and another and we still use the idea of the telephone today . -
The radio was invented
This new discovery of how to utilize the one way communication to express messages to others that later developed into a way to express one idea to a mass amount of people truly revolutionized the idea of communication between one human being and another . -
The invention of the Super Computer
Scientists developed these massive computers that were the size of a average living room in a house to start the ball rolling and which eventually turned out to be modern day technology of what we know today . This invention led to a massive discovery of new ideas that could be expressed through a new and amazing communication platform that was not even thought of before the 1900's -
Earliest forms of internet
This was called Compuserve which was the idea that people can email people back and forth through the communication channels through the concept of using the computers . -
The first actual social media was called six degrees
This enabled the user to upload pictures and make profiles , while blogging their values and opinions and also commenting on what others had to say about the topic that was being deiscussed -
Blogging became a thing in 1999
This is a concept that still
Goes ont today and without the early inventions previously mentioned , we would
Not be able to blog -
LinkedIn became popular
In the early 2000s and still is used as a primary source of professional recruitment in the business world today . It took many concepts of MySpace and Facebook and used them in a business setting to connect others to jobs and people that interest them -
MySpace came in the picture in the early 2000's
MySpace changed the game for social media and began to pave the way for Facebook and other platforms of communication -
YouTube launches in 2005
The world was never be the same after this became popular tool for people to express ideas using videos , home made clips , and anything else that people can catch on video . It is still popular today and YouTube brings information across the communication channels easy and within seconds of posting a video . -
Facebook
This world will never be the same because , of the idea of how amazing Facebook was -
Twitter
Less is more and sillier the posts are better -
Modern day social media
Instagram became a social media platform in 2010 and then it became popular around 2012 and is still one of the most popular used social medias used today