1. Social Media Evolution
By David Earley

2. What is Social Media
“A broad term referring to the wide swath of content
creation and consumption that is enabled by the many-
to-many distributed infrastructure of the Internet.”
Journalism.co.uk
www.journalism.co.uk

3. Where Did it All Start?
 The true origin of social media is very difficult to
determine.
 Many people believe the beginning of social media
was the use of bulletin boards in the late 1970’s and
early 1980’s.
 Ward Christensen was the developer of the first
public bulletin board; this board went live on
February 16, 1978.
 It is reported that this bulletin board connected
253,301 people before being retired.
BBSDAYS.com

4. When Did it Become Mainstream?
 This bulletin board laid the
foundations for what was to
become known as the World
Wide Web.
 In 1990 the first web browser
was released, this browser
was known as
WorldWideWeb.
 Now that a client existed that
allowed regular people
browse the internet, the
content began to flow rapidly.
www.about.com

5. When Did it Take Off.
 During the 1990’s many new websites began to
emerge which focused on user communities and
user generated content.
 The most notable of what was Geocities.
 Began in 1995
 Allowed users to have a person space on the web.
 Huge success and went on to be acquired by Yahoo!
for $3.57 billion in 1998.
 After this hundreds of websites began to emerge
(LiveJournal, Myspace, HI5, HubCulture ….)
WebHostingNow.com

6. Social Media Today : In Numbers
The number of items
4 Billion shared on Facebook per
day.
Facebook’s user count. *
812 Million
The % population of the
11% world with a Facebook
account.
Youtube page views each
92 Billion month.
Video uploaded to Youtube
35 Hours per minute.

7. Conclusion
 Social media growing rapidly.
 Becoming more integrated into our lives.
 Evolving the way people communicate.

8. Thank You.
 Thank you al for listening.

9. References
 BBSDAYS.com. (n.d.). Retrieved December 1st, 2011, from BBS
Days: http://bbsdays.com/people/ward_christensen/
 Guardian.co.uk. (n.d.). Guardian. Retrieved from Guardian.co.uk:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/24/syria-crackdown-
shooting
 Hubspot.com. (2011). 100 Awesome Marketing Stats, Charts and
Graphs. Retrieved December 6th, 2011, from Hubspot.com:
http://www.hubspot.com/download-100-awesome-marketing-stats-
charts-and-graphs/
 Living Internet. (n.d.). History of The Web Browser. Retrieved
December 1st, 2011, from LivingInternet.com:
http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_browse.htm
 Web Hosting Now. (n.d.). Web Hosting Now. Retrieved Decemeber
1st, 2011, from www.webhostingshow.com:
http://www.webhostingshow.com/2009/05/06/a-lesson-in-geocities-
history/
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