Super Social Media and Awesome Online Safety

Super Social Media and Awesome Online Safety — page 3
social media History Social media is an integral part of today’s digital world but it has only been with us a short while People were able to connect with one another using email and electronic bulletin boards as far back as the 1980s Social media websites took off later in the 1990s and 2000s Bulletin boards The first elements of social media could be found on bulletin board systems BBSs in the late 1970s These were simple computer noticeboards to which users sent messages and files They often did this by connecting the computer to a telephone line to make what was often an expensive long-distance call Online community In 1995 GeoCities was launched This web hosting service offered people the chance to create their own simple homepage on the World Wide Web Homepages were stored on the GeoCities server By the end of the 1990s it was one of the most popular sites on the Web 66 Social media pioneers In 1995 Classmates became one of the first social networks The site was used by school and college friends to keep in touch SixDegrees com followed in 1997 and was considered by many to be the first true social media site At its peak it had 3 5 million users but it closed in 2001 These sites were followed in the 2000s by Friends Reunited in the United Kingdom and Friendster Myspace and others in the United States true story short lived social site WalMart launched The Hub as a social media site for teenagers in 2006 It lasted just 10 weeks before closing down