From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Social Media / Wikis Outline

Computing the "Seaman's Bible"
(1766)

Mathematical Tables Calculated by Hairdressers Unemployed after the French Revolution
(1801)

Publication of the Tables of de Prony
(1891)

Using 64,000 Human Computers to Predict the Weather
(1922)

Coining the Phrase Social Network
(1954)

Probably the World's First Online Community
(1973)

The Network Nation
(1978)

Groupware
(December 7, 1984)

The First Commercial Network-Based Groupware Program
(1988)

The Beginning of the Linux Open-Source Operating System
(April – August 26, 1991)

Match.com
(1994)

Yahoo! Founded
(April 1994)

Probably the First For-Profit Social Networking Site
(1995)

Free Online Classified Advertisements
(March 1995)

The First Wiki
(March 25, 1995)

sixdegrees.com: An Early Social Networking Site
(1997)

MyFamily.com
(December 1998)

Where's George?
(December 23, 1998)

The Wikipedia Begins
(January 15, 2001)

Second Life
(2003)

MySpace
(August 2003)

Metroblogging
(November 2003)

Flickr
(February 2004)

Facebook
(February 4, 2004)

"The Long Tail"
(October 2004)

Web 2.0
(October 5 – October 7, 2004)

Kosmix.com
(2005)

"Broadcast Yourself"
(February 2005)

Code 2.2 wiki
(March 2005)

Adoption of User-Generated Content by Mainstream Media
(July 7, 2005)

"Peer to Patent"
(July 14, 2005)

Wikimania!
(August 4 – August 8, 2005)

LibraryThing is Founded
(August 29, 2005)

1,500 New Articles are Added to the Wikipedia Monthly
(October 2005)

The Amazon Mechanical Turk
(November 2, 2005)

Massively Distributed Collaboration
(November 9, 2005)

3,700,000 Articles in 200 Languages
(December 2005)

iLike
(2006)

Crowdsourcing
(June 2006)

100,000,000 Users Within Three Years
(August 9, 2006)

Nature Announces Peer to Peer Review
(September 14, 2006)

Twitter: "What Are You Doing?"
(October 2006)

The Importance of Social Networking on the Internet
(December 16, 2006)

MediaCommons: a digital scholarly network
(January 24, 2007)

My.BarackObama.com
(February 11, 2007)

The First Embassy of a Real Country in a Virtual World
(May 30, 2007)

Second Life is Used for Teaching Foreign Languages
(July 2007)

Gaining 100,000,000 New Accounts in One Year
(September 7, 2007)

Encyclopedia Will Include Wiki-Style Collaboration
(June 2008)

A Virtual Course on Teaching in Virtual Worlds
(August 4, 2008)

The Leading Classified Advertising Service
(September 2008)

More than 110,000,000 Active Users
(October 2008)

The Obama-Biden Campaign Launches Facebook Connect Integration on My.BarackObama.com
(October 20, 2008)

An Encyclopedia with More than Ten Million Articles
(October 27, 2008)

Three Billion Images
(November 2008)

An Election Reported Interactively in Real Time
(November 4, 2008)

Change.gov
(November 5, 2008)

The Wikipedia Attracts 684,000,000 Visitors Yearly
(December 28, 2008)

The First Collaborative Online Orchestra
(April 15, 2009)

Reinventing Email and Internet Communication
(May 28, 2009)

"The Web Pries Lid off Iranian Censorship"
(June 23, 2009)

The Death of Michael Jackson Impacts the Internet
(June 25, 2009)

MySpace Acquires iLike
(August 19, 2009)

More than 2 Billion Downloads
(November 4, 2009)

Google Announces Real-Time Search
(December 2009)

"Whatever Happened to Second Life?"
(January 4, 2010)

After the Earthquake in Haiti, Donating by SMS Text
(January 13, 2010)

YouTube Interviews the President
(February 1, 2010)

Facebook has 400,000,000 Users
(February 4, 2010)

The Library of Congress to Preserve All "Tweets"
(April 14, 2010)

Google Announces "Replay" for Twitter
(April 14, 2010)

"The Data-Driven Life"
(April 20, 2010)

Using the Twitter Archive for Historical Research
(April 30, 2010)

There are 400,000,000 Active Users of Facebook.
(May 16, 2010)

After Five Years More Than Two Billion Views Per Day
(May 16, 2010)

Social Networking Added to Reading Electronic Books
(June 12, 2010)

The First Traditional Humanities Journal to Try "Open" Peer Review
(July 26, 2010)

The 2010 Social Networking "World Map"
(August 5, 2010)