History of Social Media Time Line

Illustrated by: Adam Long

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 The Notificator

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 CompuServe

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CBBS: Computer Bulletin Board System

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 World Wide Web

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 AOL: America Online

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2003: A Big Year for
Launching

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Tim O’Reilly’s Foo Camp

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 Facebook Launched

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 Facebook Poking

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Facebook Photo Tagging

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 Twitter Launched

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Twitter @ SXSW 2007

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 Bruno

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Facebook hits 500 Million Users

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 Dell Hell

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 Burger King

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June 2009 Iran Elections

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“United Breaks Guitars”

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 Tweets From Space

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 Too Fat to Fly

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Japan Beats Denmark

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ReSearch.ly Launched

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Big Data for Little Brother

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Brand Champions Introduced

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