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The Internet Awakens
ARPANET
Promoted to the head of the information processing office at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Robert Taylor intended to realize Licklider's ideas of an interconnected networking system. Bringing in Larry Roberts from MIT, he initiated a project to build such a network. The first ARPANET link was established between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Stanford Research Institute at 22:30 hours on October 29, 1969.[16] -
Schooling The Web
1981 - IBM is the first mainframe manufacturer to develop a PC; drill and practice CAI gains acceptance in schools; the cold war continues. The first educational drill and practice programs are developed for personal computers.
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Multimedia Lives
1990 - Multimedia PCs are developed; schools are using videodiscs; object-oriented multimedia authoring tools are in wide use; Simulations, educational databases and other types of CAI programs are being delivered on CD-ROM disks, many with animati on and sound; the US crime increases dramatically; the cold war ends.
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Late 90's Change The Game
1996 - The Internet is widely discussed as businesses begin to provide services and advertising using web pages. New graphics and multimedia tools are developed for the delivery of information and instruction using the Internet; many schools are rewiring for Internet access; a few schools install web servers and provide faculty with a way to create instructional web pages. http://web.csulb.edu/~murdock/histofcs.html -
New World Order and Bloging
After the invention of blogging, social media began to explode in popularity. Sites like MySpace and LinkedIn gained prominence in the early 2000s, and sites like Photobucket and Flickr facilitated online photo sharing. http://smallbiztrends.com/2013/05/the-complete-history-of-social-media-infographic.html -
Friendship Has a Face
In February 2004 Mr Zuckerberg launched "The facebook", as it was originally known; the name taken from the sheets of paper distributed to freshmen, profiling students and staff. Within 24 hours, 1,200 Harvard students had signed up, and after one month, over half of the undergraduate population had a profile. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/jul/25/media.newmedia -
YouWhat
YouTube first came from Janet Jackson's role in the 2004 Super Bowl incident, when her breast was exposed during her performance, and later from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, which led to the idea of a video sharing site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube -
Cheap Texting
Twitter (/ˈtwɪtər/) is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS or mobile device app
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Social Media Stands
http://mashable.com/2009/01/23/most-popular-social-networks-2008/#HTbhn77xTaqy Facebook nearly caught MySpace in traffic. MySpace had 58.4 million unique visitors in December, Facebook had 55.2 million.- Facebook passed MySpace in time per person: 2 hours, 7 minutes to 1 hour, 40 minutes.
- The fastest growing sites were Twitter (664%),
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Time Consuming
Study 2: Americans Spend 17% of Online Time on Social Media Sites As popular social media platforms continue to grow their numbers of users, it is logical to conclude that Americans are spending more time on social networking sites. According to a study by The Nielsen Company, among those paying the most attention to this recent trend are advertisers. Online ad spending increased by 119% to $108 million in August 2009. http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/top-5-social-media-articles-from-2009/ -
Madness Consumes Us
Social Media Usage:2005-2015 65% of adults now use social networking sites – a nearly tenfold jump in the past decade. http://www.pewinternet.org/files/2015/10/PI_2015-10-08_Social-Networking-Usage-2005-2015_FINAL.pdf -
Now Where Do We Go From Here
Fast-forward to the future, and we should see global social media usage continue on its upward trajectory. In just four years, eMarketer projects it will nearly double by 32.7 percent. By then 2.44 billion of the world's population will be on social networks. While estimates through 2039 are not available, experts agree that by then, use of social media will be ubiquitous and everywhere.
http://www.cnbc.com/2014/10/02/11-predictions-on-the-future-of-social-media.html
