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Description. 1970s–1980s. The PLATO system (developed at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation) offers early forms of social media with Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowd ...
May 28, 2020 · In a sense, social media began on May 24, 1844, with a series of electronic dots and dashes tapped out by hand on a telegraph machine. The first electronic message from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., proved Samuel Morse understood the historic ramifications of his scientific achievement: “What hath God wrought?” he wrote.
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- Antiquity to World War 2. Year or period: Circa 500 BC to 1945. Since antiquity, communication across great distances has been accomplished through everything from smoke signals to the written word.
- The post-war years and CompuServe. Year or period: 1945 to 1980s. The technological explosion in computing after the 1940s paved the way for the social media world we see today.
- Early social media apps are born: The Well and GENie. Year or period: 1985. 1985 saw the introduction of The Well and GENie. GENie (General Electric Network for Information Exchange) was an online service created for GE.
- Listverse makes its debut. Year or period: 1986. Listserv (the original, not the modern top ten site) debuted in 1986. This was, in effect, a mailing list that allowed individuals to contact multiple users in one email.
- The first social media site was born (1997) On one of the first true social media sites, SixDegrees.com, you could set up a profile page, create lists of connections, and send messages within networks.
- Hot or Not (2000) Who can forget AmIHotorNot.com? The site invited users to submit photos of themselves so others could rate their attractiveness. Hot or Not is rumored to have influenced the creators of Facebook and YouTube and nurtured millions of insecurities.
- Friendster (2002) Launched in 2002, Friendster was originally going to be a dating site that would help set up people with friends in common. You could create a profile, include “status updates,” and reveal your mood.
- Myspace: “A place for friends” (2003) Friendster rival Myspace (originally styled as MySpace) quickly became the go-to site for millions of hip teens. Its customizable public profiles (which often featured music, videos, and badly shot, half-nude selfies) were visible to anyone, a contrast to Friendster’s private profiles.
- Social Media Started in The Early 2000s
- In Rich Countries, Almost All Young People Use Social Media
- Some Perspective on How Fast and Profound These Rapid Changes Are
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MySpace was the first social media site to reach a million monthly active users – it achieved this milestone around 2004. This is arguably the beginning of social media as we know it.1 In the chart, we plot monthly active users across various platforms since 2004. Some large social media sites, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit, have been aroun...
From a back-of-the-envelope calculation, we know that, if Facebook had 2.3 billion users in 2019, then at least 30% of the world was using social media.2This is just an average – usage rates were much higher for some world regions, specifically for some population groups. Young people tend to use social media more frequently. In fact, in rich count...
The percentage of US adults who use social media increased from 5% in 2005 to 79% in 2019. Even on a global stage, the speed of diffusion is striking: Facebook surged from covering around 1.5% of the world population in 2008 to around 30% in 2018.5 How does this compare to the diffusion of other communication technologies that make part of our ever...
Learn how social media has grown over time, who uses it, and how it has changed the world. See charts and data on the history of social media platforms, users, and trends across countries and age groups.
Jun 16, 2015 · Learn how social media evolved from the 1970s internet to the modern platforms we use today. Explore the definition, milestones, and examples of social media history from Six Degrees to Facebook.
Jul 11, 2023 · The history and evolution of social media explained From the early days of AOL and MySpace to today's giants YouTube, Facebook and TikTok, social media has evolved into a critical part of modern culture worldwide.
