Social Media History
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Updated: 23 Nov 2017
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Created byAliyah Lee
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The earliest methods of communicating across great distances used
written correspondence (letters) delivered by hand from one person to another.Telegraph was createdPneumatic post was developedTelephone was createdRadio was createdin 1865, created another way for letters to
be delivered quickly between recipientsTwo important discoveries happened in the last decade of the 1800s:
The telephone in 1890 and the radio in 1891.After the
first super computers were created in the 1940s,The earliest forms of the Internet, such as CompuServe, were developed
in the 1960sBy the 1980s, home computers were becoming more common and social
media was becoming more sophisticated.Internet relay chats, or IRCs,
were first used in 1988 and continued to be popular well into the
1990’s.Internet relay chats, or IRCs,
were first used in 1988 and continued to be popular well into the
1990’s.The first recognizable social media site, Six Degrees, was created in
1997In 1999, the first blogging sites became popular, creating a
social media sensation that’s still popular todaySites like MySpace and LinkedIn gained prominence in the
early 2000s, and sites like Photobucket and Flickr facilitated online
photo sharingYouTube came out in 2005, creating an entirely new way
for people to communicate and share with each other across great
distances.By 2006, Facebook and Twitter both became available to users
throughout the world. These sites remain some of the most popular
social networks on the Internet. Other sites like Tumblr, Spotify,
Foursquare and Pinterest began popping up to fill specific social
networking niches.
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