eca6957243e823aef635feb20dc690f841cd838bd8f1b66036fdf425fa7cac51,"First bulletin board system called CBBS (Computerized Bulletin Board System\") was launched"
2c6779a068f3ff803a721971f1f86d270f92510ca29020a0458820947ba3affb,"First FidoNet nodes was launched in production"
9fd80c376a5882d6a8d100f77d6b4e1575d6a59d179926f858a880e34d14912b,"AOL instant messenger was launched. The social revolution began with 'Welcome! You've got mail' sound bit and utility allowing users to build and search profiles."
0d57fd91ad9c11f174c56517a1abf70e02e17002d89c0cdc050b8699fd5bda63,"Originally launched as a list of school affiliations, Classmates came out in December 1995. The site, founded by Randy Conrads, later incorporated features like member profiles and friends lists. The company was sold to United Online in 2004 and suffered from a string of controversies, including an investigation by Andrew Cuomo, who was New York Attorney General at the time. The company has been rebranded as a center for nostalgia called Memory Lane. "
b37c29c8e683b1b1599db5c5407bd6c88024c50bc17f142205debb46d7a15661,"Six Degrees is widely considered to be the very first social networking site. Founded by Andrew Weinreich in May 1996, the site launched the following year and combined popular features such as profiles, friends lists and school affiliations in one service. While the site had millions of registered users, due to the lack of people connected to the Internet, networks were limited. It would be a few years before the Internet's infrastructure could catch up with the concept of social networks."
f4fe0b191e77e9af1a8c0ef65b6fc0d685ab73b30bbd5c895f8862c3f26c3541,"FanFiction.Net is the biggest archive for fanfiction anywhere, offering thousands upon thousands of stories, with a total length somewhere in the range of fifteen to twenty billion words. The website started in 1998 by webmaster Xing Li, it soon snowballed into something incredible. Its secret to success is its limited moderation and fully-automated system, meaning posting is very quick and easy and can be done by anyone."
7872de720734a4820c36830eb3d91d5f965e19b2c680b7b60474e67c159e4937,"Google.com is registered"
1f1b75ff9b2d7d63917cde7b8a14e3382eb2f450c64836d848d1c4a86dfe284f,"theGlobe.com was an internet startup founded in 1995 by Cornell students Stephan Paternot and Todd Krizelman. A social networking service, theGlobe.com made headlines by going public on November 13, 1998 and posting the largest first day gain of any IPO in history up to that date."
ae34c8cd119a0b2091f21b92a4dbeaeb954bd65e5be3dbc48ba6cb4e3a129d9d,"Blogger is an American online content management system founded in 1999 which enables multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries."
1beaf5c38c170f336da3f9210f4068f6b4c323322488de92962593b808965138,"LiveJournal was launched. LiveJournal (Russian: Живой Журнал), stylised as LiVEJOURNAL, is a Russian-owned social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal, or diary."
f837d1af5806377357c3f0903b85b6118875e7e91918b017ab3853102c6174f4,"While there were social networks that existed before Friendster, none of them engaged the mainstream with the same success. Launched by Jonathan Abrams and Peter Chin in March 2002, the site was built on the premise that people were separated by six degrees. A feature that showed how you were connected to strangers made meeting people less intimidating and highly addictive. It was also considered a safe way to meet potential dates online. Unable to scale the service at the same rate as demand, the site encountered many technical hiccups. Frustrated users began migrating away from the popular social network and on to its rival MySpace. The company is still credited as giving birth to the modern social media movement. In May of 2011, the site abandoned user profiles and transitioned into a social entertainment site. "
3d26f402e0db003f206057c123554576d063055cb00ac93506b8a102f3c9c2a2,"Meetup is a social media platform for hosting and organizing in-person and virtual activities, gatherings, and events for people and communities of similar interests, hobbies, and professions. It was founded in 2002 by Scott Heiferman and four others. "
067a3307c40cc896121bac38fa00b729ecc03bbf416fe0bba331c08e89ed3ff5,"Google buys Blogger web service"
d6babeacfb41c1dfee3ec179ab6d9309456e2c5a647f0eb763701c355a9384eb,"MySpace was launched."
4c22e36f84b21697cd4f657a2637fd7c4aae121c9892a708c3929cc602cdc0fe,"Couchsurfing was launched"
e524b7c816d1c5876f07e30396783ff317b8d5dcfdf09de0f4572ccfadecc43d,"LinkedIn was launched."
21cbccae2ba9595397de5a26e53836066d7560529d71e6e4d08adec68eb3c993,"Last.fm was launched"
96dfc7174edf3645813893aadf3d17dd0c37e02d9ac0fa5ef541b458305a3a5d,"Flickr was launched"