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AOL was one of the first online messengers and it shaped early online communications -
Google was created and transformed how people researched on the Internet, then expanded into different services as well. -
My space is made public with customizable profiles. It was the first popular social network where people could show their creativity based on their profiles. -
Gmail was launched with one gigabyte of free storage and advanced search tools because they were ran by Google. this platform took over email back then. -
YouTube was groundbreaking in media because it allowed anyone to upload their videos expanding culture and starting in influencing careers -
This makes gaming and communications for kids and a new generation of about virtual communities. This also pave the way for other online games. -
Twitter took the Internet by storm. It introduced short form posting and became the place for a real-time news , conversation ,and even politics. -
This is not only chain social media because it inspired algorithm updates, but it also reshaped how people consumed the content they were seeing on a daily. -
This is really important because almost every social media platform uses hashtags there is not one that doesn’t, and if so, it isn’t popular. Hashtags allow users to have more organized conversations. -
Disney was on a generation run surely after clip penguin they made Disney pixie Hollow, which gave girls and boys a virtual world to create fairies, but also expanded Disney’s online presence. It was one of my favorites -
Movie star planet blended, social networking with avatar gaming, which began the merging of child and adult spaces because it was originally catered towards teens and tweens, but as they grew up, they didn’t get off the app or other adults signed up. -
Oovoo was a video chatting service that offered free services it also became a teen favorite and it began the shift of how online interactions was shifting towards video other than just typing. -
Mine took the Internet by swarm. It was quick content, six second max videos that also contributed to the influencing careers and a decline of attention span in people. -
Musically was called Vine 2.0 as you focus on lip syncing short videos, but they were more than six seconds started a teen audience and built onto the old generation. -
Instagram introducing stories was their first temporary content that reshaped social media inspired engagement competitions along social media. -
Believe it or not, TikTok was not the downfall of musically musically was so to TikTok, but originally TikTok was launched in China made as an algorithm base entertainment, social media. -
Very sad year for social media vine was shut down, hurting many people’s income but it cleared the way for TikTok’s rise as musically has been sold to byte dance who owned TikTok -
Discord was originally for gamers, but during COVID-19 it became used for community school and work -
Omegle was shut down after 14 years due to safety concerns. There was so much grooming on that app as a child I should not have been on there. It was a random anonymous video chatting site. -
Elon Musk, the creator of Tesla purchased Twitter and sparked a cultural debate, shifting the platform towards “an everything app”, but also reducing regulations on content as racism and other bigoted things became less monitored.