This document discusses the history of social media from its early beginnings with newsgroups and bulletin boards through AOL and forums to the present day. It relates this history to old school rap, mentioning Kurtis Blow's liking of social media, and includes hashtags referencing "I'm a little bit gangsta" by Zuck and "#SMBTV14".
Studies show that this graph has nothing to do with social media.
friendster is known as the first true social media platform. Founded in 2002 and originally written in Java, friendster switched to PHP before it was crushed by MySpace.
Most people don ’ t know that Tom Anderson, everyone ’ s favorite MySpace friend, was one of the original members of the Sugarhill Gang.
Unlike the Sugarhill Gang, MySpace did not jump on Apache. MySpace was originally built in Coldfusion, and later rewritten in ASP.NET
Like Snoop, Twitter had a problem with speed.
Russell Simmons was the co-founder of Def Jam Records.
Russell ’ s brother, Joseph (AKA Rev Run), was a founding member of Run DMC.