The first social networks that marked a before and after in the digital age no longer exist. What happened to these platforms?
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If you grew up with these sites, surely you wonder what happened to them, and who came to replace them.
Windows Live Messenger
It was published in 1999 and was used by many to chat with acquaintances or from other countries. It was also called MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger (2005).
It competed with messaging giants such as ICQ, AOL’s AIM, and Yahoo!
It replaced the phone calls from home and many of the teenagers of the time, used them to have a more private conversation.
MSN Messenger was largely responsible for the popularity of Hotmail, gave rise to a huge market for plug-ins, add-ons, which is why it became a dangerous route for the distribution of viruses and malware, through the distribution of infected files.
In 2013 he joined Skype. Currently Facebook incorporated his version of Delivery courier.
Hi 5
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It was released in 2003 and was similar to Facebook.
Users posted a profile photo and their interests, as well as inviting their friends. It allowed users to customize their profiles with colors, backgrounds, and videos.
It had 70 million registered users in 2007 but was dethroned by Facebook. In 2011 it was bought by the social network Labelled. Now he survives on games, mainly Pets 2.
My space
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In 2003 the world got to know this social network. It was created by Tom Anderson. Through the profiles, people could share their favorite music, as well as photos, their tastes and decorate their space with wallpapers that reflected their personality.
You could also list songs that your profile visitors could listen to. It became known as a platform where emerging bands and singers made themselves known to their audiences as Artic Monkeys, group that became famous thanks to this social network and traveled all over England before releasing their first album.
More than 600 thousand groups uploaded their music to this social network, positioning it as the great ones but, like Hi 5 was dethroned by Facebook in 2007.
Its decline occurred after losing more than 50 million songs in a server migration process.
Came
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It was launched in 2012 and in it users could create short videos that were repeated. However, Snapchat networks and the arrival of GIFs (5-10 second animation frames), diminished their power.
The social network was bought by Twitter, then disappeared in 2017.
Instagram and Tiktok were inspired by Came for stories and videos.
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