History Of Social Networks

Social Media History: A Chronology

- 1969-1st Commercial Online Service by CompuServe.

- 1971- First Email.

- 1978- BBS Bulletin Board Systems.

- 1979- News Groups.

- 1989- World Wide Web Introduced.

-1994-First Blog Created Links.net by Swarthmore student.

- 1997- 1st Modern Social Network launched Six Degrees was the first modern social network. It allowed users to create a profile and to become friends with other users. Had about 1 million members at its peak popularity.

- 1999- Blog Platform, Blogger, launched.

- 2003-Social Networking & Bookmarking Sites appear Linkedln launched.

- 2004-Facebook launched.

- 2005- YouTube launched.

- 2006-  Twitter launched.

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Social Networks That Popular Right Now

is the world's most popular social networking website. It makes it easy for you to connect and share with your family and friends online. Facebook has even helped the web become more open and social.

is an online social networking and microbloging service that enables users to send and read short 140-character text messages, called "tweets". Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has offices in New York City, Boston, San Antonio and Detroit. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and by July 2006, the site was launched. 

is an online photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr.

Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched in October 2010.