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The World's First Selfie
The first "selfie" was taken by amateur chemist and photography enthusiast Robert Cornelius. It was taken in the back of his families chandelier store in Philadelphia. -
World Wide Web (WWW) is Unveiled
Created by Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW). The basic idea of the WWW was to merge technologies of computers, data networks and hypertext into a powerful and easy to use global information system. -
The First Social Media Site
Six Degrees, named after the six degrees of separation theory, was credited as the first social media network. Due to allowing people to sign up with their email address, make individual profiles, and add friends to their personal network. However, it is no longer around. -
Linkedin is Born
Hiring agencies lick their chops in anticipation of how easy their jobs are about to become. -
The Launch of The Facebook
Created by Mark Zuckerburg and currently known as Facebook, was once a social media website built in order to connect Harvard students with one another. Now the company has billions of users and the owner is one of the richest men in the world. -
YouTube is Created
A new way to share and post videos from around the world. The first video was titled "Me at the zoo." Now with over 23 million channels, 5 billion videos are watched per day. -
Twitter Goes Live
A little idea about 140 character status updates called tweets turned itself into a social media giant. Even challenging Facebook. -
Hashtag Debut
First appeared on Twitter in 2007 by Chris Messina with the purpose of gathering discussions and online exchanges. His first hashtag was #barcamp. -
The Start of Instagram
Instagram is a social media app that allows users to share photos and videos from their lives, add captions, edit filters, tweak settings, engage with others, explore and creep, and so, so much more. -
Good Morning SnapChat
It’s a new kind of camera that’s connected to your friends and the world. Over 180 million people use it every day to talk, play, learn, and take some pictures, too. -
GIF's on Social Media
Facebook enables GIF's, lossless format for image files that supports both animated and static images. Making social media that much more fun. -
Cambridge Analytica Scandal
In early 2018 when it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica had harvested the personal data of millions of people's Facebook profiles without their consent and used it for political advertising purposes.
