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Term talk
Instant messaging -
Plato Notes
Conferencing and bulletin board -
Talkomatic
Chatroom -
Arpanet
Birth of the internet -
Bulletin Board Platform
First form of Social Media -
Fidonet
Birth of emails in North America, later internationally -
IRC rises from BBS
Was intended to expand on BBS, instead it offered a similar service and experience and is still in use today -
Classmates
Lists of school affiliations -
Hotline
Chat bulletin board -
Bolt
Social networking and video -
Lunarstorm
Considered world's first social media on internet -
ICQ
Israeli social media -
AOL Instant Messenger
Social messenger -
SixDegrees.com
Social networking -
Open Diary
Social blogging -
ICQ acquired by AOL
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SixDegrees.com acquired by Youth Stream Media
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Yahoo Messenger
Instant messenger -
Live Journal
Early blogging platform -
MSN Messenger
Messaging, video, and voice calling service -
Habbo
Game based social network -
Something Awful
Game based social network -
AmIHotorNot.com
Chat and dating site -
SixDegrees.com
Went out of business -
Friendster
Private dating site -
Facemash
Beginnings of future Facebook, was answer to amihotornot.com chat and dating site -
MySpace
Rival to Friendster, sold to Newscorp 2005, begin to fail in 2005 -
YouTube
Video sharing site -
Flickr
Photo sharing site -
LinkedIn
Business oriented website -
Nexopia
Site for teens -
Twitter
Text message base tool