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Thursday, February 25, 2021
Basic timeline of social media websites and apps
This post is a basic timeline of social media websites and apps. There are 45 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia
- GeoCities (1994)
- Match.com (1995)
- Classmates.com (1995)
- AOL Instant Messenger (1997)
- Open Diary (1998)
- LiveJournal (1999)
- Blogger (1999)
- eHarmony (2000)
- Friendster (2002)
- LinkedIn (2003)
- Myspace (2003)
- 4chan (2003)
- OkCupid (2004)
- Facebook (2004)
- Digg (2004)
- YouTube (2005)
- Reddit (2005)
- WordPress.com (2005)
- Twitter (2006)
- VK (2006)
- YouTube is acquired by Google for $1.6 billion (2006)
- Tumblr (2007)
- Zoosk (2007)
- WhatsApp (2009)
- Pinterest (2009)
- Instagram (2010)
- WeChat (2011)
- Twitch (2011)
- Google+ (2011)
- Snapchat (2011)
- Instagram is acquired by Facebook for $1 billion (2012)
- Medium (2012)
- Vine (2012)
- Tinder (2012)
- Google Hangouts (2013)
- WhatsApp is acquired by Facebook for $19.3 billion (2014)
- Twitch is acquired by Amazon for $970 million (2014)
- Periscope (2015)
- Discord (2015)
- Mixer (2016)
- TikTok (2016)
- Microsoft Teams (2017)
- Substack (2018)
- Google+ is disbanded (2019)
- Clubhouse (2020)
- Mixer is disbanded (2020)