Wednesday 11 April 2018

Social Media Inventions

As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being grilled and questioned in the US Senate and Congress, I thought it would be fitting to review some of the most popular social media inventions and the year when they appeared:
1890 – Telephone
1891 – Radio
1945 – CB Radio
1966 – E-mail
1995 – Ebay
1999 – Napster and Blogger
2000 – Trip Advisor, Bluetooth
2001 – Wikipedia
2002 – Linkdln and Meetup
2003 – Facebook, Skype, MySpace, Word Press
2004 – Flickr, Vimeo, Yelp,
2005 – YouTube and Reddit
2006 – Twitter and Spotify
2007 – Tumblr, Gowalla and Last FM
2008  - Soundcloud
2009 – Whatsapp
2010 – Ask.FM
2011 – Pinterest and Google+
2013 – Snapchat
Others may have appeared over the last 5 years.

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