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eHarmony was founded by Neil Clark Warren, a psychologist and author of relationship advice books.
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MySpace was launched.
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Facebook was founded by Harvard classmates Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. At the time, it was known as "Thefacebook". It was intially for the use of Harvard Students.
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Flickr is released at the O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference.
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Investor, Peter Thiel, sees potential in the website and invests $500,000
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YouTube was created by three former Paypal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim in a garage in Menlo Park, California. It was created as a way for people to share and watch videos around the world through the internet.
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Yahoo acquires Flickr
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The first ever YouTube video, titled "Me At The Zoo", featuring co-creator Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
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Becomes one of the hottest sites on the Web. With 22 million members, it had more pages than Google at the time and was one of the major destinations on the web.
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A Nike ad becomes the first video to get 1 milion views on YouTube.
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YouTube gets launched to the public.
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Twitter was created by three programmers, Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, from San Fransisco, California. It was created because they wanted to find a new way to send text messages on their phones.
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Twitter officially launches to the public.
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Google buys Youtube for $1.65 billion.
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Tumblr was created by web developer/entrepreneuer David Karp. He created Tumblr as a reaction to other blogging platforms, as he thought they were too complicated.
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YouTube launches partner program where users can get paid for their content.
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Microsoft buys a 1.6 percent stake in the company, valuing Facebook at $15 billion.
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The Commons launches between Flickr and the Library of Congress.
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Facebook reaches 100 million active users
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MySpace launches MySpace Music
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Twitter passes 1 billion tweet mark
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MySpace removes 90,000 sex offenders from the site.
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Tumblr purchases an Apple application called Tumblerette to launch it's first cell phone app.
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Flickr releases its first iPhone app.
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The site launched in March of 2010 to a closed forum. The first 5000 users were personally invited by Ben Silbermann, the founder of Pinterest. Silbernann was inspired to create Pinterest by his love of collecting things as a child.
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The famous "Like" button is created
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Twitter launches new web interface, allowing new ways to embed multimedia into the stream
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Instagram was created and lauched by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. It was a way to edit and share photos.
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MySpace launches new gap logo
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IG reaches 1 million users
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Pinterest released thier iPhone app in march 2010. The app was downloaded more times than expected.
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Twitter valued at $7.7 billion
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Google lauches Google + for users to post statuses and pictures for interest groups to see, rather than just "friends"
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2 weeks after lauch, users reach 10 million
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Snapchat was developed by Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy for a class project at Standford. Snapchat first launches under the name Picaboo, as an iOS-only app
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Flickr hits 6 billion photos
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Introduces 4 new filters (v2.0)
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Barry Eggers, a managing director at the venture capital firm Lightspeed Ventures, learns from his teenage daughter that the three most popular apps among her friends are Angry Birds, Instagram, and Snapchat. Eggers' partner at the firm, pursues Snapchat and agrees to invest $485,000 in the company
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Facebook acquires Instagram
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Facebook goes public
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Vine was created by Dom Hoffman, Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll in New York. It was created as a tool to easily cut video shots together.
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Pinterest no long requires user to request or have an invitation to join the website.
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Tinder was launched by founder Sean Rad. It targetes college campuses first, with 90% of uses ranging from the ages of 18 to 24.
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Twitter buys Vine for $30 million.
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Vine officially launches to the public.
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IG has 100 million users
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Vine becomes the most downloaded free app on the iOS App Store.
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Introduces the video feature
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Yahoo! acquires Tumblr for $1.1 billion. David Karp stays as CEO.
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540 Million active users
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Snapchat users are now sharing 400 million snaps a day
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The New York Times compared Google+ to a ghost town, citing Google stats of 540 million "monthly active users", but noting that almost half don't visit the site.
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Facebook's face recognition algorithm (DeepFace) reaches near-human accuracy in identifying faces.
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Pinterest launched the option to have "Promoted Pins" allowing companies to sponsor results in search results and category feeds.
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Snapchat launches collaborative timelines based on events.
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Acquires Whatsapp
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Hundreds of thousands of Snapchat photos are leaked. Snapchat does not appear to be at fault: the leak seems to be from SnapSaved, a service that allows people to receive snaps and archives all the snaps it receives, and Snapchat explicitly states in its terms of use that users should not connect Snapchat with third-party applications.
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SnapCash added. Tool to allow people to send each other money easily through the app
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300 Million monthy users, surpassing the monthy users on Twitter
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Snapchat announces that it has raised $485 million from 23 investors at a valuation of at least $10 billion.
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100 Million Active Users Currently on Snapchat. Snapchat users are sending snaps at a rate over 400 million a day
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Over 1.49 billion monthly users (users who have logged-on within a 30 day period starting in the 2nd quarter).
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Buyable Pins are a special type of pin that allows the user to make a purchase within Pinterest itself. Pinterest does not get a cut of the purchase, however they intend to allow sellers to promote this buyable pins for a small fee.
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Twitter clocks in at 316 million monthly active users and 500 mllion tweets sent per day.
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Today, Tumblr has over 252 million blogs and more than 116.9 billion posts.
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Today, YouTube has over 1 billion users and around 300 hours of video are uploaded every minute.
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Today, Vine has over 200 million users, around 100 million people watch Vine videos every month and 1.5 billion Vine loops played daily.
