Historical Development of Social Media

Social Media started with bulletin board systems during the early period of the internet, and these communication methods were essentially powered by independently produced code which let users communicate with a "server" from which they could download files and games which included pirated software and message others. The technology at the time was a major hinderance to these "early social media platforms", however the concept survived into the '90s, when the internet started to really come into the spotlight.

The 2000s is when social media started to take of with linkedin and myspace being created in 2003 with myspace being the most popular social network in the world by 2006, youtube and reddit being created in 2005 and twitter in 2006

These days we have Facebook and other modern social media platforms. If one precursor to modern social media exists it would be AOL, where users could put in details about themselves and had their own profiles they could use to communicate with each other. AOL was very innovative for its time.

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