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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

It depends, but early social media platforms started to pop up in the late 90s to early 2000s, with the technology budding as early as the 70s. Friendster (2002) Launched in 2002, Friendster was originally going to be a dating site that would help set up people with friends in common. So, how old is social media?

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Paywall for News.com and Online Community Social Media

Laurel Papworth

Eye Witness: On October 11, 2002 there was a bombing at a shopping mall in Myyrmanni, Finland in which 7 were killed including children and 166 injured. You can read the newspaper reports about it OR you can read Juha Haataja : I and my youngest daughter were lucky yesterday, Friday, October 11th, 2002.

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Social Pros 20 – Katie Morse, Billboard

Convince & Convert

She does carry her iPhone around with her, and we do try and stay natural to the platform, which a lot of it is iPhone photography. Jill : Yeah, I’ve been a fan since 2002. We tend to break it up more by platform. She’s taking it on some other camera, then uploading it the other way? Katie : It’s a combination.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Location, Location, Location The biggest story of the event was the widespread usage of presence services foursquare and Gowalla. foursquare has a very interesting new dashboard that shows business owners data about how and when people have checked-in. link] Meryl K Evans I'm glad I went in 2002 and 2003 before it got so big.