Apparently in the early stages of its development the twttr team racked up some steep SMS bills.
The first tweet ever, posted by co-founder Dorsey on March 21, 2006, read: “just setting up my twttr.” So glad they changed the name, because “twttr” scks!ĭorsey originally envisioned twttr as a text message-based tool for sending updates between friends. Twttr, the site that eventually became known as Twitter also took flight in 2006.
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Twitter hatches (2006)ĭespite its 2004 birth date, 2006 was arguably the year Facebook truly took flight: it opened registration to everyone and went from an exclusive Harvard-only club to a global network. News-aggregator-cum-snark factory, Reddit arrived that year too.
Anyone remember “Me at the zoo”- the very first YouTube video of that man and the weirdly watchable elephants? It now has 56 million views. Photosharing sites like Photobucket and Flickr, social bookmarking site and the now ubiquitous blogging platform, WordPress also came into existence. LinkedIn emerged, targeting the business community. Registering its one millionth user that same year, the site dropped the “the” to became just “ Facebook” in 2005, after the “” domain was purchased for $200,000.Īround the same time, a tidal wave of other social media sites swept ashore: In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facemash, described as Harvard University’s answer to Hot or Not. And that was the start of its decline from ultra-trendy to ultra-tacky. The site had 25 million users and was the fifth popular site in the United States when it sold to NewsCorp that year. Its customizable public profiles (which often featured music, videos and badly shot, half-nude selfies) were visible to anyone, and were a welcome contrast to Friendster’s private profiles which were available only to registered users.Ģ005 marked the apex of Myspace. In droves, frustrated Friendsters said “sorry it’s not me, it’s you” and pulled up stakes for Myspace, the Friendster rival that quickly became the go-to site for millions of hip teens. Unfortunately, the site’s spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise and took a toll on its servers, impacting users, who increasingly looked to connect elsewhere. Messaging “friends of friends of friends” was also a thing. You could create a profile, include “status updates” and reveal your mood. Launched in 2002, Friendster was originally going to be a dating site that would help set up people with friends in common. Then along came everyone’s BFF: Friendster. The site is rumored to have influenced the creators of Facebook and YouTube-and nurtured millions of insecurities.Īfter being sold off a few times, its new owners tried to revive it as a “game” in 2014. Who can forget Hot or Not ( )-the site that invited users to submit photos of themselves so others could rate their attractiveness. The site amassed around one million users before it was bought out for $125 million …and shuttered in 2000, though it later made a modest comeback and still subsists today.
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