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Tripod Originating
Tripod originated in 1992 with two Williams College classmates, Bo Peabody and Brett Hershey, along with Dick Sabot, an economics professor at the school. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripod.com -
Google
The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin -
GeoCities
GeoCities was originally founded by David Bohnett and John Rezner in late 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet (BHI), and by 1999 GeoCities was the third-most visited Web site on the Web. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocities -
theGlobe founded
founded in 1994 by Cornell students Stephan Paternot and Todd Krizelman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theglobe.com -
Tripod Website Launch
Tripod offers free web hosting services, with 20 megabytes of webspace and ability to run Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts in Perl. Also offers a blogging tool, photo album manager, and Trellix site builder for WYSIWYG page editing. Tripod's for-pay services include additional disk space, a shopping cart, domain names, web and POP/IMAP email. -
Classmates.com creation
This website was originally designed to assist members in finding friends and acquaintances from kindergarten, primary school, high school, college, work and the United States military. -
Hotmail
Hotmail (officially Microsoft Hotmail, previously Windows Live Hotmail and MSN Hotmail) is a free web-based email service operated by Microsoft as part of Windows Live. One of the first web-based email services,[3] it was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith -
SixDegrees
Allowed users to list friends, family members and acquaintances both on the site and externally; external contacts were invited to join the site. Users could send messages and post bulletin board items to people in their first, second, and third degrees, and see their connection to any other user on the site. -
Pets.com
Sold pet supplies to retail customers -
theGlobe
Made headlines Nov 18 1998 and posted largest first day gain. Collopased the follwoing year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theglobe.com -
Makeoutclub
Founded as a music/subculture related social networking site to provide a community for persons with similar style and musical tastes, stating on their website -
Pets.com Defuncted
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SixDegress Dying
Six Degrees was followed by more successful social networking sites based on the "social-circles network model" such as Friendster, MySpace, LinkedIn, XING and Facebook. -
Friendster Founded & Live
One of the first social networking sites to attain over 1 million members, although it was preceded by several other smaller social networking sites. Went live later in 2002 and quickly adopted by three million users within the first few months. -
Hub Culture Founded
Members create profiles with tags tied to areas of expertise and knowledge, sharing information to help others in the network with business related activities. Members may build working groups to manage collaborative projects with wikis, file sharing, discussions and event planning, or exchange the virtual currency to acknowledge favors and benefits that come from the sharing of information. -
Windows Live Spaces
Windows Live Spaces was Microsoft's blogging and social networking platform. Originally released in early 2004 as MSN Spaces -
Facebook
Was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes -
GeoCities Shutting Down
Approxametly 10 years after Yahoo bought GeoCities and announced that it would shut down the United States GeoCities service with still 38 million users on it when shutting down.GeoCities Japan version is still available. -
Yahoo 360 Launched
Enabled users to create personal web sites, share photos from Yahoo! Photos, maintain blogs and lists, create and share a public profile and see which friends are currently online. 360° also featured a 'friends updates' section, under which each friend's latest update was summarized. This service was never officially launched; Yahoo! prematurely stopped developing this service in 2008. -
Windows Live Space Relaunch
Re-launched in 2006 as a part of a shifting of community services away from the MSN brand. Windows Live Spaces received an estimated 27 million (27,000,000) unique visitors per month as of August 2007 -
Twitter Founded
Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". -
Tumblr Founded
The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private. -
Yahoo! 360° Plus Vietnam
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Facebook Ranking
Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users. -
Pinterest Developing
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Pinterest Launch
site launched as a closed beta in March 2010. The site proceeded to operate in invitation-only open beta. Silbermann said he personally wrote to the site's first 9,000 users offering his personal phone number and even meeting with some of its users. -
Instaram Launch
The service enables users to take a photo, apply a digital filter to it, and then share it with other Instagram users they are connected to on the social network as well as on a variety of social networking services. -
Classmates slowing down
Classmates was not among the top 10 social networking websites and forums -
Windows Live Space shut down
Despite being considered a useful messaging and communication tool, Windows Live Spaces has been criticized as not being as powerful as some of its alternatives -
Hotmail Update
369 million -
Pinterest Update
reported the site had 11.7 million unique users, making it the fastest site in history to break through the 10 million unique visitor mark.[15] Pinterest's wide reach helped it achieve an average of 11 million visits each week in December 2011. Most of the site's users are female. -
Hub Culture Update
Hub Culture lists over 20,000 members and has exchanged over 8 million units of its virtual currency. -
Facebook Update
Facebook has over 955 million active users, more than half of them using Facebook on a mobile device. -
Tumblr Update
Tumblr has over 64.7 million blogs. According to comScore, it scored 13.4 million unique visitors in the United States alone in July 2011—up 218% from July 2010. Its headquarters is located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. -
Google Update
Alexa listed the main U.S.-focused google.com site as the Internet's most visited website, and numerous international Google sites as being in the top hundred, as well as several other Google-owned sites such as YouTube and Blogger. -
Makeoutclub Update
Makeoutclub currently has over 100,000 active users, with new members joining daily. The site is updated, administered, moderated, and maintained -
Yahoo! 360° Plus Vietnam
Still operating -
Twitter Update
With over 500 million active users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. Since its launch, Twitter has become one of the top 10 most visited websites on the Internet, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet. -
Instagram Update
Instagram currently has 100 million registered users.
