By Noelia Fraguela
Marketing4ecommerce Content Manager
ANDThe beginning of the history of the Internet , a few years ago, paved the way for a large number of new forms of communication between users: email, web pages, forums… But, without a doubt, the creation of the first social network was a before and after in our way of communicating. Do you know what the first social platform was, or how it came about? In this article we will tell you.
History of social media: index
The beginnings
What was the first social network?
The arrival of Friendster, MySpace and LinkedIn (2002/2003)
The emergence of the social network par excellence: Facebook (2004)
YouTube: the audiovisual phenomenon (2005)
The beginning of 140-character messaging: Twitter (2006)
WhatsApp (2009)
Instagram: the largest photography network (2010)
Pinterest and Google+ (2010/2011)
Twitch, the reference platform for gamers (2011)
…And more, and more modern
TikTok, one of the latest to arrive (2016)
BeReal, a breath of fresh air among afghanistan number data the posturing (2020)
Threads, Meta's Twitter (2023)
Current state of social media in Spain
History of social networks: how and when they were born
The beginnings
To begin with, we must recall the birth of the Internet, back in 1947, when the Cold War was taking its first steps, pitting citizens from one end of the world against the other; some Westerners and capitalists (led by the United States), and others Easterners and communists (led by, at that time, the Soviet Union).
A real battle for power that led to numerous technological advances. Among them, the United States created the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA ), which a decade later laid the foundations for what would become known as the Internet, since its ARPANET network allowed the exchange of information between institutions.
Thanks to this, over time, users from different parts of the world began to stay in touch thanks to emails (the first one being sent in 1971 ) or Project Gutenberg (free online library), in 1971. A few years later, in 1991, the global Internet network was made public, with the World Wide Web (what we commonly know as "www"), and thus the Internet emerged .