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"Timeline: The Most Important Social-Media Events in History\nThe first e-mail was sent just over 40 years ago; we've come a long way, baby. But along with the highs (Twitter-enabled revolutions, Chatroulette), there have been a lot of lows (Kim Kardashian's tweets, Chatroulette). These are the moments that are worth remembering and, in some cases, cringing about. Plus: See our complete coverage of social media mavericks.\n1971: The first e-mail travels between two computers one meter apart. Many coworkers continue to communicate this way\u2014rather than actually talking.\n\nCredit: Getty Images\n1979: Online services enter the scene, starting with CompuServe (1979), AOL (1983), and Prodigy (1984).\n\n1980: The first dedicated chat room, CompuServe's CB Simulator, launches. Yes, as in CB radio.\n\nCredit: AP\n1994: Anyone can make a website with Yahoo! GeoCities. (The service closed down in 2009.)\n\nCredit: Newscom\n1995: Classmates.com emerges as a way to keep up with old high-school buddies. You probably saw the ads (\"She married him?\" \"She's a model now?\").\n\nSee also: Memory Lane.\n1997: AOL Instant Messenger kills the chat room. Creepy middle-aged dudes everywhere mourn the loss.\n\n1999: Anyone can blog! Open Diary, LiveJournal, and Blogger.com all launch at around the same time.\n\nCourtesy of Flickr/jesseproper\nMarch 2002: About 3 million people join Friendster during its first three months. But what to do with it once you have an account?\n\nCourtesy of Flickr/ajkandy\nMay 2003: With very little fanfare, LinkedIn arrives on the scene.\n\nCredit: Getty Images\nSeptember 2003: Myspace debuts with tons of customization tools that reveal the terrible design sensibility of the average person.\n\nCourtesy of Gizmodo\nFebruary 2004: Mark Zuckerberg, the Harvard dropout with the Adidas shower sandals, follows up his success with Facemash (think: Hot or Not) by launching Facebook. Six years later, he's king of the world.\n\nAlso: Flickr launches.\n\nCredit: AP\nDecember 2005: \"Lazy Sunday,\" a music video featuring Andy Samberg and fellow cast member Chris Parnell is broadcast on Saturday Night Live and then goes viral. Going viral becomes a thing.\nMarch 2006: Blogs are deemed too long. Twitter sets the new upper limit: 140 characters.\n\nDecember 2006: Yahoo makes a billion-dollar bid for Facebook. No deal.\n\nCredit: AP\nJanuary 2007: Justin Bieber posts his first video\u2014a shadowy Ne-Yo cover shot in a school auditorium\u2014to YouTube. A gazillion views and counting.\nFebruary 2007: Twenty-year-old founder David Karp bills Tumblr as a blog for the lazy: \"a fabulous alternative to the 90 percent of Web users who don't care to maintain a blog,\" he posts to WordPress.\n\nCourtesy of Flickr/parawendolyne\nJuly 2007: Regular folk submit questions for the candidates during the CNN-YouTube presidential debates. Anderson Cooper moderates.\n\nCredit: Getty Images\nApril 2008: Facebook's traffic overtakes that of Myspace, which goes from being a massive social network to a place for bands to get the word out.\n\nCredit: Getty Images\nMarch 2009: The world gets thousands more mayors, thanks to Foursquare. And badges. Suddenly everyone wants a badge.\nFebruary 2010: Rumors suggest that Kim Kardashian earns $10,000 per endorsement tweet.\n\nCredit: AP\nMarch 2010: Facebook beats out Google as the most trafficked site on the Internet.\n\nOctober 2010: Instagram launches.\n\nCredit: Getty Images\nMay 2011: LinkedIn has a famous initial public offering (IPO). Share prices more than double, and words like bubble and frothy market are bandied about.\n\nCredit: AP\nJune 2011: The masses learn the difference between a tweet and a direct message thanks to Anthony Weiner.\n\nGoogle+ launches.\n\nJustin Timberlake (perhaps inspired by his role as an Internet mogul in The Social Network) and Specific Media acquire Myspace for $35 million\u2014$545 million less than News Corporation paid for it in 2005.\n\nCredit: AP\nAugust 2011: Details magazine publishes \"The Social Issue,\" guest edited by Ashton Kutcher. Okay, well, it was important to us.\n\nNovember 2011: After a Joe Paterno-related flub on Twitter, Ashton Kutcher hands over the keys to @aplusk to his team. Twitter will never be the same.\n\nCredit: Corbis\nJanuary 2012: Google+ hits the 90-million-user mark and\u2014experts predict\u2014is on track to reach 400 million users by the end of the year, which would make it half the size of Facebook."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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