- Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, two computer fans, invented the CBBS system to inform their friends about meetings, make announcements and share information.
- Several students from the University of Illinois developed Mosaic, which was presented as the first browser adapted to the general public.
- Launch of GeoCities, a service that allows users to create their own web pages.
- The Web has one million websites.
1997:
- GeoCities surpasses one million users.
- AOL Instant Messenger allows Internet chat.
- Blogging begins.
- Google launches.
- GeoCities goes public.
- Friends Reunited, the first social network to become popular among Internet users, was founded in the UK to find old school mates.
- Yahoo! buys GeoCities for 3.57 billion dollars.
- The Blogger platform launches.
- The dotcom bubble burst and the future of Internet is more uncertain than ever.
- 70 million computers are connected to the Internet.
- Friendster launches. The social network reaches 3 million users in just three months.
2002:
- AOL has already reached 34 million users.
- MySpace is launched.
- Google buys the Blogger platform.
- Second Life launches.
- LinkedIn launches social network for professionals.
- Facebook is born. An unknown investor offers Mark Zuckerberg $10 million to buy the famous social network. Facebook founder declines the offer.
- MySpace surpasses Friendster in number of page views.
- Digg launches.
- Bebo – an acronym for blog early, blog often – launches as another social networking site.
- News Corp. buys MySpace for $580 million.
- Viacom offers to buy Facebook for $75 million, but the social network rejects the offer.
- Friends Reunited, which already has 15 million users, is sold to the ITV television network.
- YouTube is launched.
- MySpace is the most popular social network in the U.S..
2006:
- Viacom returns with an offer to to buy Facebook for $1.5 billion, but the deal falls through. Yahoo! also made an offer of $1 billion to take over the social network, but Facebook declined.
- Google generates about 400 million searches every day.
- Twitter is born.
- Facebook surpasses MySpace in number of unique users per month.
- Google makes an offer of 15 billion dollars to buy Facebook.
- Apple introduces the iPhone.
- Facebook is now the largest social network worldwide with over 200 million users. The social network’s traffic is twice that of MySpace.
- AOL buys Bebo.
- Facebook tries to buy Twitter for 500 million dollars.
- Tumblr launches.
- Twitter breaks the news of a plane crash in the Hudson River.
- “Unfriend” is the New Oxford Dictionary word of the year.
- Microsoft launches Bing to compete directly with Yahoo and Google.
- Facebook surpasses 400 million users, and also surpasses Google in weekly traffic.
- MySpace loses its popularity and the number of users shrinks to 57 million.
- In order to compete with Facebook and Twitter, Google launches Buzz, a social network built into Gmail.
- AOL sells Bebo to Criterion Capital Partners.
- Apple launches the iPad.
- There are an estimated 1.97 billion users worldwide, representing 30 percent of the population.
- The Internet surpasses newspapers as main source of information among Americans.
- Tumblr generates more than 1 billion page views per month and over 2 million daily posts.
- Pinterest launches.
- There are over 550 million users on Facebook, 65 million tweets sent per day, and 2 billion YouTube videos watched each day.
- LinkedIn now has 90 million users worldwide and goes public.
2011:
- Apple launches the music social network Ping.
- News Corp. sells MySpace to digital media firm Specific Media for $35 million.
- MySpace and Bebo are redesigned to compete with Facebook and Twitter.
- Facebook reaches an annual revenue of 3.7 billion dollars.
- Google + launches.
-Pinterest launches as a content curation site.
-Pinterest competitor Snip.it launches.
- Facebook files for an IPO. At its premiere in the stock trading floors, the network aims to collect 10 billion dollars. Its value is estimated between 75 and 100 billion dollars.
- Twitter generates 12,233 tweets per second during the Super Bowl.
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