The history of social networking:

The first social network with the use of computer technology can be considered e-mail in 1971, which was used by military in ARPA Net network.
And in 1988, a Finnish student Bright Oykarinenom was invented «IRC» technology. Internet Relay Chat, which allows you to communicate in real time.
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The turning point was the invention of the Internet, which became public in 1991, thanks to the British scientist Tim Berners-Lee.
In 1995, Randy Conrad was created Classmates.com - the first social network in the modern sense. The concept proved to be very popular, and the rapid development of social networks on the Internet begins with this year.
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Valuable in our understanding of the first social networking site can be called SixDegrees, launched in 1997 by Andrew Weinreich.

The purpose of social networking was an attempt to prove the «Six degrees separation». This theory was a major in the study of social relations, its essence lies in the fact that any 2 people in the world are related to each other a chain of acquaintances a maximum of 6 people. In SixDegrees already offered such features making your own page, friends list and search for friends on the social network.

The project quickly began to gain popularity. In 2000, it was sold for 125 million. Dollars. However, in the year 2001, this social setperestala exist.
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The following social networks were AsianAvenue, Mi Gente, BlackPlanet they appeared between 1997 and 1999.

March 18, 1999 an American student programmer Brad Fitzpatrick created a "live journal» Livejournal.
The service went on to become a massive hosting blogs and has a very high popularity in the CIS countries. Livejournal provided a first opportunity to create a group and communicate them. Today, we see it in all the major social networks.
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In 2002, Jonathan Abrams developed a dating site Friendster.

The uniqueness of this social network was that she did not go on the way predecessors not trying to make friends of the two strangers. The main site was the idea that would help people to find new friends in your friends list. This innovation allowed the site to collect 3 million. Users in the first 3 months of existence. At the moment, the resource is registered more than 115 million. People worldwide.
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In the same year, in December, the social network LinkedIn has been created.
Launched a social network was in May 2003, Reid Hoffman. The aim of this social network was to find and establish business contacts. At the moment, LinkedIn registered more than 200 million. Users, representing over 150 business sectors in more than 200 countries.
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In 2003, a new social network MySpace was created.
It provides the ability to create personal profiles, customize the appearance by their profiles, create communities of interest, post pictures, video and audio-known performers.

Upon registration, each gets its own blog. These advantages and allowed MySpace in 2006 to become the most popular social network in the world. rock groups have become the main users of MySpace. For many musicians, this site has become a real platform for self-presentation, as well as the opportunity to communicate with their idols, and sometimes even to be among their friends.
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In 2004 the company was launched Ludicorp Flickr project. The creators of this idea, Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake.

The aim of the project was to allow players Game Neverending save during their game image that would later put them on the Internet. Once service began to enjoy great popularity, and in 2005 it was bought by Yahoo Flickr becoming available to any user of the Internet.
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In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg founded the social network TheFacebook.

In 2005, the network became known as Facebook. The primary purpose of the social network was to provide an opportunity to Harvard University students to communicate with each other, post pictures, videos, change statuses online.
In 2008, the social network Facebook has become the most popular social network in the world, and this time its leadership did not miss once. Throughout the period of existence of Facebook is constantly adding new features, including instant messaging, chat, multiple applications. Also it has its own platform for developers. Facebook today yavlyaetsya2 most popular website in the world, behind 1 Google search engine position.
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In addition to simple communication with interesting people they all users were able to communicate with each other different media information - sound, video, and photo files. In addition, it opened new horizons for the use of social networks for the promotion of Internet resources, goods and services.

On the 2011 mid-year, the number of active users - more than 700 million.

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In September 2005, Tim O'Reilly makes an ideological revolution, introducing the concept of "Web 2.0" in his article «Tim O'Reilly - What Is Web 2.0», which describes the modern Internet. One of the central parts of the new concept is occupied social networks.

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In 2006, Jack Dorsey launched Twitter draft and immediately became the fastest growing new social-network project. Twitter is unique in the ability of users to send short text messages (up to 140 characters). Initially, the purpose of the project was to provide an opportunity for the person to answer the simple question, "What are you doing now?" "What are you doing now?", Etc. The answer in this case was immediately available to all the people who have subscribed to the user. This innovation allows you to quickly gain market share and expand the functionality.
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