The first important turning point in the history of social media is the emergence of the Internet. In 1969 Arpanet was developed by the Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) in the USA and is considered as a first predecessor of the Internet.This network consisted only from 4 units placed in the 4th american universities: University of California Los Angeles, University of California Santa Barbara, Stanford Research Institute and University of Utah.
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Usenet was an internet communication system created by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979. Usenet is considered as predecessor of the internet blogs and forums. In 1990s Usenet became part of the Internet.
SixDegrees.com started the new era of the modern social networks. It used a real identity of its users. The name of this social network comes from famous psychologist Stanley Milgram. He works with the idea that every person in the world is connected. Six degrees means 6 people who you know.This is the hypothetical distance between two people. However, SixDegrees was very badly timed. In 1997 servers were expensive, slow and had other restrictions.
Lide.cz is one of the most famous social networks in the Czech Republic. Nowadays, it is replaced with Facebook.
Friendster was established by Jonathan Abrams in 2003 and became a hit. Friendster was the first network that came with posting photos. Within few months it had millions of users.The only disadvantage was that a lot of users connected to Friendster within a very short time.The servers didn't handle a strain and slowed down.
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LinkedIn is a representative of the professional social networks.It is the biggest on-line network targeted to business networking. The aim of LinkedIn is to help professionals in business.
In 2004 Mark Zuckerberg developed Facebook. At the beginning Facebook was available only for the Harvard students but by the time... We all know that story.
Twitter is a well known micro-blogging system. The main function of Twitter is to publish short "tweets". The base of this network is a relationship called following.
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In 2011 Google developed Google+. This network is very similar to Facebook. Thanks to media and promotion, Google+ became the biggest potential concurrent of Facebook. But time showed that Facebook still remains the most popular social network.
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