Social Networking and Mobile Devices
What is social networking?
1976-77
Early 1990s
• World Wide Web was invented and began to be used by the public
1998- Google is launched
1996- ICQ chat was launched
1990-MSN messenger was created
2001- Apple launches itunes
2003- Myspace is launched
2003- Instant messaging (IM) is generating five billion messages a day
2004- Facebook is launched
2005- Youtube launches
2006- Twitter launches
2009-The Internet now has 1.5 billion users and there are over 100 billion live web pages.
Mobile Devices
1947- AT&T commercialized Mobile Telephone Service
Prior to 1973, mobile cell-phones were used for cars
1973- First hand-held mobile phone
1991
1992 -the first SMS messaging was used
1997-2003 in Japan
2000- gradual increase of text messaging
2002- First Blackberry device
2004- 500 billion SMS messages in 2004.
2007- First iPhone
2007- Android operating system launched
2011- iMessage released