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Email was first done by Ray Tomlinson, which was let the @ symbol become a thing, and almost all emailing tools and some use it for names on later websites -
Microsoft creation is important to note, because they would go into the future and buy many social media platforms like skype and youtube. but as well as having a link to computers. -
This is the start of the history we will be covering, since it a key point in social media as a whole
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The First Social Media Site, Six Degrees was created in 1997 by Andrew Weinreich that let users just make profiles, have friends and interact. the base for social medias to come later on. With the URL of sixdegrees.com -
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DMCA for you short. is a copyright law that implements 2 treaties, that criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices or services online. allowing control access to copyright work with digital rights. -
Facebook is still a key social media platform even after 20 years later from it creation. Created by Mark Zuckerberg it would start out as TheFacebook. -
Youtube what first started out as a hobby for people, was able to turn into a job for thousands, letting them become content creators. Which would also occur on other social media platforms. -
A key moment for live streaming, this allowed anyone to broadcast videos online, which let anything be streamed as well, and had a lot of criticisms against due copyright law and more. -
There is no early confirm time for when social media platform would start looking into AI but those tools would become more powerful and highly from the 2010s to Now. When Most Social Media Platforms have an AI you could even talk too -
Snapchat started out as Picaboo, which is an app that lets you take photos and chat with your friends, as well as post stories. one of the most popular apps to do so -
The Launch of Tik Tik would be highly influence to a lot of social media platforms to create short form content, like vine but longer. as well as have the government hate this app. -
During President Trump first presidency he ended up putting an vague executive order to ban American Companies from any transactions with TikTok
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Something that has influence social media more closer to the current timeline is Covid-19 Lockdown due to locking everyone inside and not having much else to do. other then use the internet. -
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act gets reworked and changed commonly since its introduction, but this is the latest change to it. that would go to include stuff for supervised educational purposes, for accessibility. As well as including computer programs to the copyright list, but video games has been added if their completed.
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Bluesky social media app was created in 2019 but became its own independent company and development of it would accelerate after Elon Musk bought Twitter, leaving it launch in 2023 by Invites only -
In Australia it has become the first country to have an age ban for people under the age of 16 on social media -
The Law that would would force Bytedance to sell TikTok, to the united states or be banned on January 19, 2025. But this would bring free speech into question if the government can in act a ban on a website.
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Due to the United States and Concerns due to China, they did a nationwide ban of the app. leaving people to an app that gave them the ability to free speech