History of social media



1971                     E-mail was born
1978                     BBS (Bulletin Board System) First blog ever in the world
                             Usenets              - Early Outline Bulletin Boards
1988                     IRC (Internet Relay Chat)              - Father of IM & Twitter
1991                     WWW (Worldwide Web) was born
1994 – 2009         Yahoo Geocities (One of the first social network site)
1994                     Modern Blog is born
1995                     TheGlobe.com, Classmates.com and eBay were born
1996                     The first Mobile Phone with Internet was introduced
1997                     AOL IM, Sixdegrees.com (First modern social network)
1998                     Google + Paypal
1999                     Napster + Live Journal
2000                     Dot com (.com) bubble burst
2001                     Wikipedia            - Stumble upon discover the best of web
2002                     Friendster (90+ million users)
2003                     LinkedIn (100+ million users)      MySpace (57+ million)   Skype + iTunes
2004                     Facebook, Flickr
2005                     YouTube (24hr video upload every minute)
                             Twitter (30000 people per day sign up, 600 tweets per second)
2006                     MySpace most popular network
2007                     Over take porns on web
2008                     Facebook takes over MySpace to become the most popular network
                             Local Based social web Quora
2009                     Collection Q&A Created & Organized by people
2010                     Facebook takes over Google