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CompuServe
CompuServe allowed members to share files and access news and events. It also offered something few had ever experienced – true interaction. Not only could you send a message to your friend via a newfangled technology dubbed “e-mail”, you could also join any of CompuServe’s thousands of discussion forums to yap with thousands of other members on virtually any important subject of the day
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Community Memory
The community memory used an SDS 940 timesharing system in San Francisco connected via a 110 baud link to a teleprinter at a record store in Berkeley to let users enter and retrieve messages. Individuals could place messages in the computer and then look through the memory for a specific notice.
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Computerized Bulletin Board System
BBS was a computer server that ran custom software allowing users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other users through email, public message boards, and sometimes via direct chatting.
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PLATO
PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations)[1][2] was the first generalized computer assisted instruction system. Many modern concepts in multi-user computing were developed on PLATO, including forums, message boards, online testing, e-mail, chat rooms, picture languages, instant messaging, remote screen sharing, and multiplayer games.
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AOL Inc
It originally provided a dial-up service to millions of Americans, as well as providing a web portal, e-mail, instant messaging and later a web browser following its purchase of Netscape.
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Classmates.com
A social networking service founded in November 17, 1995 by Randy Conrads as Classmates Online, Inc. It originally sought to help users find classmates and colleagues from kindergarten, primary school, high school, college, workplaces, and the U.S. military.
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SixDegrees.com
SixDegrees.com was a social network service website that lasted from 1997[2] to 2001 and was based on the Web of Contacts model of social networking. Users could send messages and post bulletin board items to people in their first, second, and third degrees, and see their connection to any other user on the site. It was one of the first manifestations of social networking websites in the format now seen today.
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Friendster
Friendster allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. The website was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands and hobbies. Users could share videos, photos, messages and comments with other members via profiles and networks.
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LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a social networking site that enables professional business users to network with other professionals in similar fields of work.
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MySpace
MySpace was a favourite. It tempted the young users with
music, music videos, and a funky, feature-filled environment.
It was the young hipper version of Friendster.
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Facebook
When using facebook a user can create a profile, add friends, exchange messages, post status's and photos, videos, play games and use apps, and receive notifications from other uses. Users can also join common interest groups with friends and colleagues.
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Twitter
Twitter is a networking service that lets users send and read short 140-character messages, commonly known as tweets. Registered users can read and post tweets and those unregistered still have the availabilty to read them just not post any.
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Instagram
Instagram is a online photo and video sharing app that allows user to take pictures and videos and share on social networking sites.
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Snapchat
Snapchat is an image and video sharing application that allows user to send pictures with a viewing time till the picture or video vanishes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat