Dorsey originally envisioned twttr as a text message-based tool for sending updates between friends. The first tweet ever, posted by co-founder Dorsey read: “just setting up my twttr.” and really set the tone for future tweets. News aggregator/snark factory Reddit arrived.Video-sharing came onto the scene with YouTube.Sites for teens like Nexopia launched, bringing sparkly, customizable profiles with them.The now ubiquitous platform WordPress was born.Social bookmarking sites like popped up.Photosharing sites like Photobucket and Flickr came into being.LinkedIn emerged, targeting the business community.Registering its one-millionth user that same year, the site became just “ Facebook” in 2005.Īround the same time, a tidal wave of other social media sites swept ashore: In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facemash, described as Harvard University’s answer to Hot or Not. Gaining traction: LinkedIn, YouTube, and WordPress (and more) arrive (2003-2005) And that was the start of its decline from ultra-trendy to ultra-tacky. The site had 25 million users and was the fifth most popular site in the US when it sold to NewsCorp. 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.Ģ005 marked the apex of Myspace. Myspace: “A place for friends” (2003)įriendster rival Myspace (originally styled as MySpace) quickly became the go-to site for millions of hip teens. The flood of traffic took a toll on Friendster’s servers, impacting users, who increasingly looked to connect elsewhere.
Unfortunately, the site’s spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise. You could create a profile, include “status updates,” and reveal your mood. Launched in 2002, Friendster was originally going to be a dating site that would help set up people with friends in common. Hot or Not is rumored to have influenced the creators of Facebook and YouTube and nurtured millions of insecurities.Īfter being sold off a few times, it’s currently rebranded as the dating app, Chat & Date. Who can forget ? The site invited users to submit photos of themselves so others could rate their attractiveness. So, how old is social media? It depends, but early social media platforms started to pop up in the late 90s to early 2000s, with the technology budding as early as the 70s. SixDegrees was certainly one of the first, but you have to define what a social media site is before you can say which is the first.įor example, the PLATO system, developed by the University of Illinois in 1970, had many features of an early social media network but was largely used in academia. The actual answer to “when was the first social media site launched” is debatable. The site amassed around one million users before being bought out for $125 million, only to shutter in 2000. On one of the first true social media sites,, you could set up a profile page, create lists of connections, and send messages within networks. The 33 most important moments in the history of social media The first social media site was born (1997) So sit back, relax, and join us while we look back at what once was the future.
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It’s bursting with pivotal moments like the launch of Instagram Stories, to that one time Zuck was on trial for Facebook privacy issues, to…honestly, let’s just look at the entire social media history timeline. The history of social media is a long and storied one.
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