History of Social Media

First computer to store information

Sep 4, 1941

Atanasoff and his graduate student,Clifford Berry,design a computer that can solve 29 equations

Calculator and Electronic Numerical Integrator

Sep 4, 1943

John Mauchly and J.Presper Eckert build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and calculator and it fills a twenty foot by forty foot room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes

First ARPANET Link Established

Oct 29, 1969

The first ARPANET link was established between UCLA and the Standford Research Intitute.

First Email Sent

Oct 1, 1971

The first electronic message was sent between two computers by Ray Tomlinson.

"Internet" term coined

Jan 1, 1974

The term “Internet” was coined by Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine at Stanford University

Ethernet introduced

Jan 1, 1980

Ethernet was invented by Robert Metcalf. Introduced commercially in 1980

TCP/IP Becomes Standard

Jan 1, 1983

TCP/IP Becomes the standard for comunicating between computers on over the internet.

DNS Implemented

Nov 1, 1983

Paul Mockapetris creates the Domian Name System at the University of California.

First Dot-Com Registration

Mar 15, 1985

[First Domain](www.symbolics.com) First commercial internet domain name registered by symbolics.com

First Worm Virus

Nov 2, 1988

The first computer worm was released on the internet by Cornell student Robert Morris.

First Consumer Dial-Up Connection Available

Nov 1, 1989

First Dial-Up service provider was "The World"

Internet hits 2.6 million users

Jun 1, 1990

The internet now has 2.6 million users. 73% of those users were living in the United States and 15% were living in Europe. The only other countries with internet access at the time were Canada, Japan, Australia, Korea, and Israel.

World Wide Web Opens To The Public

Aug 6, 1991

The World Wide Web (what we know as "www.") opened to the general public. Creator Tim Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the project on alt.hypertext newsgroup.

Tripod as first onilne community

May 20, 1992

Tripod opened as comminity online for college students and young adults

CERN Donates WWW Tech

Jan 1, 1993

CERN donated the WWW technology to the world.

Mosaic Web Browser Released

Jan 23, 1993

Mosaic, what becomes the most popular web browser upon the realease of the World Wide Web to the public, is released. Also described as the first graphical web browser.

Yahoo! GeoCities is launched

May 20, 1994

Anyone can create a website with Yahoo! GeoCities.

Classmates.com as the newest social media

May 20, 1995

Classmates.com emerges as a way to keep up with old high school buddies.

1 million websites

Feb 2, 1997

The web has one million sites

AIM Launch

May 1, 1997

AOL launches its instant messaging service.

SixDegrees launch

Jun 20, 1997

SixDegrees.com, a social networking site is launched.

Google Launches

Sep 15, 1998

Google becomes a registered search engine and index

Napster

May 20, 1999

Napster, a peer-to-peer file sharing network, is introduced. Napster was generally used to share audio MP3 files amongst users, generally music. The sharing of music raised issues of copywrite infrignement and eventually ceased P2P sharing and later became an internet music store.

Wikipedia launch

Jan 15, 2001

Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched the website that had first been imagined by Rick Gates 1993.

Google Images launch

Jul 1, 2001

Intially offering only 250 million images as compared to the 10 billion plus images that can currently be found there.

iTunes Store Launch

Apr 1, 2003

iTunes was developed by Bill Kincaid and orginally launched in 1999 by Casady & Greene. It was renamed and revamped starting in 2000 when Apple, Inc. purchased it.

LinkedIn Launch

May 5, 2003

LinkedIn was created in December 2002, but did not launch until May 2003. It is a business-oriented networking service.

MySpace Launch

Aug 1, 2003

The social network MySpace was launched by founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson.

Facebook Launch

Feb 4, 2004

Facebook The social network Facebook was launched by founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Google Launches Gmail

Apr 1, 2004

Gmail Google developer, Paul Buccheit, started Gmail as a project in 2001. Google finally released the software to the public in 2004.

World of Warcraft launches

Nov 23, 2004

Developed by Blizzard Entertainment and originally launced 10 years after the first game in Warcraft franchise.

Facebook Reaches 1 Million Users

Dec 30, 2004

Facebook reaches 1 Million users 10 months after launching

Youtube Launch

Feb 14, 2005

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005.

Launch of Google Maps

Jun 1, 2005

Google Maps is a desktop and mobile web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, offering satellite imagery, street maps, and Street View perspectives, as well as functions such as a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bicycle (beta test), or with public transportation.

Google Purchased YouTube

Feb 1, 2006

Google puchased YouTube for $1.65 billion.

Launch of IPhone

Jun 29, 2007

Apple released first IPhone which allowed for social media applications to be used from cellular device.

Launching of Google Chrome

Sep 1, 2008

Google Chrome is a freeware web browser[9] developed by Google. It used the WebKit layout engine until version 27 and, with the exception of its iOS releases, from version 28 and beyond uses the WebKit fork Blink.

Whats App

Jun 13, 2009

WhatsApp Inc. was founded in 2009 by US Citizens Brian Acton and Jan Koum (also the CEO), both former employees of Yahoo!, and is based in Mountain View, California.[1][2] The company employs 55 people

Instagram Launched

Oct 1, 2010

Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger

Google Glass created

Feb 1, 2013

Google Glass was developed by Google X

"Year Of the Selfie"

Jan 1, 2014

Twitter proclaimed 2014 as the “Year of the Selfie” following Ellen DeGeneres’s Oscar photo. You know the one. Or, you should. Because that selfie has been retweeted more than three million times—setting a Twitter record and winning Twitter’s award for “Golden tweet” of the year.

Virtual Reality

Mar 1, 2014

Mark Zuckerberg found the idea of "Virtual Reality" very interesting, but had no intentions of collaborating the idea with Facebook

Instagram Launches IGTV

Jan 1, 2018

Instagram is now ready to compete with YouTube: the company increased its one-minute video limit to one-hour and launched a whole new app, IGTV, dedicated to long-form video.