![]() When 2004 rolled around, Facebook was invented and quickly gained popularity among college students. Myspace and it’s founder Tom Anderson, better known as Myspace Tom, quickly met the same fate as Friendster. As for LinkedIn, it is still going strong as the most popular business networking site. By the time Facebook launched, Friendster was already a punchline. Friendster would become a memory- at least in the United States -when Myspace launched a year later. The two sites would have two very different fates. Believe it or not, that same year LinkedIn was also launched. Friendster (2002-2003)Īfter the failure of, Friendster took its place in 2002. Two years later, in 1999, AOL’s biggest competitors played catch up and launched their versions of AOL’s popular messenger feature, Yahoo Messenger, and MSN Messenger. Fortune reported that four years after it’s launch AIM had 36 million active users. ![]() The fact that AIM was free, easy to use, and allowed everyone to chat with friends accounted for its rapid spread. The other major development of 1997 was the introduction of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), which complimented AOL’s then-active 19 million chat rooms. However, the limited availability of the Internet meant that it was not very user-friendly. At its height, has 3.5 million registered users. Once you joined,, which was based on the six degrees of separation concept, let you message your first, second, and third degrees and see how you were connected to other people. As in the early days of Facebook, you had to be invited to the site. The site had profiles, friends’ lists, and allowed users to list their schools. Many of the familiar hallmarks that dominate every social networking site since were introduced here. , which you can still join if you are so inclined, introduced the concept of a social networking site. The year 1997 brought big change to the Internet. In 1992, AOL would use the same tactics, a year later this was combined with free trial floppy disks, to get people to sign up for Internet service. The Washington Post reports that it even had roleplay “channels” and, in 1983, was responsible for some of the earliest instance of people getting married after meeting on the Internet. Also introduced in 1980, CB Simulator, which was name after CB radio, was a collection of chat rooms. While Usenet offered message boards, the first major commercial online service provider, Compuserve used CB Simulator to entice people to sign up for Internet service. Usenet also contributed to our Internet vocabulary FAQ, flame, and spam. In 1995, the Big 7 became the Big 8 when humanities was added. There was also alt, which was jokingly nicknamed “anarchists, lunatics, and terrorists” because it was prone to the same type of chaos Reddit is known for today. The Great Renaming introduced the Big 7 hierarchies, which were comp (short for computers), misc (for miscellaneous), news (for newsgroup news), rec (for recreation and entertainment), sci (for science-related discussions), soc (for social discussions), and talk (for controversial topics in general. Until 1987, when the Great Renaming took place, Usenet newsgroups were fairly unorganized. ![]() Their creation, Usenet, was the precursor to modern-day forums and launch in 1980. The next major development in making the Internet a social place came from the minds of Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979. Usenet, CB Simulator, and AOL (1979-1995) Access to Plato Notes and Talkometric was limited to those who had access to PLATO, which was a generalized computer-assisted instruction system. For those who want to learn more, Woolley wrote an article in 1994 that explores in-depth PLATO’s place in history as a proto-internet. Personal Notes, Term-Talk, monitor mode, and Talkomatic would join Plato Notes and become the predecessors to email, instant messaging, and chat rooms, respectively. Woolley’s first program for PLATO was Plato Notes, one of the first online message boards. Woolley created on PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) what may be the first online community. ![]() Instead of going through every social network ever created, we’re going to take a walk down memory lane and revisit some of the most notable innovations in social media technology. For every, Facebook there are hundreds of Orkuts. Over the years, social media has taken the form of chat rooms, networking sites, and microblogging. ![]() However, social media has been around in some form since the beginning of the Internet. When we think of social media, we tend to list off the most popular sites of the moment. ![]()
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