So I would like to kick off this Tuesday morning by sharing an infographic I found online (from an unknown source - all I know is that it was brought to us by RedPepper). As you will see in this infographic below " The History of Social Media " it all started with E-mail and it wasn't email like we do it now with graphics, html, and other elements embedded.
Some people online today may be too young to remember email in it's most primitive form (myself included) but I do remember growing up with only 3 Internet providers which were AOL, Prodigy and Compuserve. AOL was my first experience using Social Media. AOL was King of Social Media for a long time from the days of dial-up to then DSL to then using an existing cable connection . I also IRC chat, social media sharing using Napster, then Kazaa, now it's all bittorrentz. Back in the days everyone expressed themselves by making their own homesites using Geocities then it was myspace, migente.com (for latinos) and there was also Blackplanet.com and AsianAvenue.com and now we have even more emerging networks everyday like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest, Blogger, Wordpress, Triberr, .
This infographic is in fact no complete history but it is a very good recent account of the larger networks still in existence for the most part ( It's missing like Google + which most people still don't understand how to use and other social media sites that are in the top ten like did you know Tagged was recently #9 and Orkut was # 10. See full list of top social networks And what of the Social Bookmarking Sites like Reddit, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Digg, Diggio, and others like those. Well that is for another infographic I guess.
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Some people online today may be too young to remember email in it's most primitive form (myself included) but I do remember growing up with only 3 Internet providers which were AOL, Prodigy and Compuserve. AOL was my first experience using Social Media. AOL was King of Social Media for a long time from the days of dial-up to then DSL to then using an existing cable connection . I also IRC chat, social media sharing using Napster, then Kazaa, now it's all bittorrentz. Back in the days everyone expressed themselves by making their own homesites using Geocities then it was myspace, migente.com (for latinos) and there was also Blackplanet.com and AsianAvenue.com and now we have even more emerging networks everyday like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest, Blogger, Wordpress, Triberr, .
This infographic is in fact no complete history but it is a very good recent account of the larger networks still in existence for the most part ( It's missing like Google + which most people still don't understand how to use and other social media sites that are in the top ten like did you know Tagged was recently #9 and Orkut was # 10. See full list of top social networks And what of the Social Bookmarking Sites like Reddit, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Digg, Diggio, and others like those. Well that is for another infographic I guess.
" The History of Social Media "
( Free Infographic )
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