A Brief History Of Social Media

Social media are interactive computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.

The development of social media was first conducted via the first electronic mail by ARPA (Advanced Research Project Agency) researchers in 1971. In 1978, the invention of a bulletin board system was came out which was allowed them to upload, download information and communicated to other. This bulletin board system was discovered by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess who are both lover of computer world.

In 1995, the ‘GeoCities’ was founded by David Bohnett and John Rezner. This GeoCities use as Web Hosting which mean website's data storage rental service. On January 28, 1999, GeoCities was acquired by Yahoo!; at that time it was the third most visited website on the World Wide Web. The emergence of this GeoCities became milestone to other websites. At that same time in 1999, private blog was created that we call Blogger. This site offers its users to create their own site pages and users of this Blogger can load anything about it including personal matters or to criticize the government.

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So, it can be said this blogger is the cornerstone of a social media development.

In the 20th Century, technology began to change social media rapidly. After the invention of blogging, social media began to explode in popularity. Sites like MySpace and LinkedIn gained prominence in the early 2000s, and sites like Photobucket and Flickr facilitated online photo sharing. YouTube came out in 2005, creating an entirely new way for people to communicate and share with each other across great distances.

By 2006, Facebook and Twitter both became available to users throughout the world. These sites remain some of the most popular social networks on the Internet. Other sites like Tumblr, Spotify, Foursquare and Pinterest began popping up to fill specific social networking niches.

Today, there is a tremendous variety of social networking sites, and many of them can be linked to allow cross-posting. This creates an environment where users can reach the maximum number of people without sacrificing the intimacy of person to person communication. We can only speculate about what the future of social networking may look in the next decade or even 100 years from now, but it seems clear that it will exist in some form for as long as humans are alive.

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