The Social Media History

February 1978: First dial-up BBC (“CBBS”) is launched. BBSs continue to grow in popularity through the 1980s.

1995: Personal home-page service Geocities is launched. Goes public in 1998 and is urchased by Yahoo! in 1999 for $3.57 billion. Geocities is shuttered in 2009.

1997: Early social media service SixDegrees.com is launched. At its height, the service claims 1 million users.

August 1999: Blogging service Blogger launches. Purchased by Google in 2003.

March 2002: Social media site Friendster launches. Membership peaks in 2008, then begins its steady wane.

December 2006:…