Social Media Timeline

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    Social Media TImeline

  • Email was created.

  • Six Degrees

    First modern social media site.

  • Blogster

  • Live journal

    Social media built around constantly updated blogs.

  • Napster

    Free music downloading.

  • Six degrees

    Six degrees site closed.

  • Wikipedia created

  • Friendster is founded

  • Hi5, LinkedIn, MySpace, and photobucket.

    Launched.

  • Flickr, yelp, gmail, facebook*

    Facebook launched for Harvard. Flickr, yelp, gmail, are launched.

  • Multiply and Orkut.

    Googles social media networks launched.

  • YouTube and reddit

    Founded.

  • Facebook!!

    Facebook released to public!

  • Tumblr.

    Tumblr was founded.

  • First iPhone launched.

  • Facebook versus MySpace

    Facebook gains more users than MySpace.

  • Facebook.

    Facebook creates the "like" button, "unfriend" is added to the Oxford dictionary.

  • Twitter

    Twitter sponsored tweets launched.

  • Pinterest, google plus, snapchat

    All launched!

  • Vine, and Instagram.

    Vine is launched, Instagram video launched.

  • Youtube

    Launched paid channels.

  • Yahoo

    Yahoo acquired tumblr.

  • Ellen Degeneres's Oscar selfie

    Becomes the most retweeted tweet of all time.

  • Facebook, tinder, Google plus, Pinterest.

    Facebook reaches one billion users. Tinder launched, Google plus launched communities and event features. Pinterest becomes the fastest site in history to pass the 10 million unique visitors mark.