SXSW.COM | F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 7 | SXS W O R L D 5
1997 Six Degrees first to have
create profile & add friends features
1999 LiveJournal
dynamic content on blogs & forums
2001 Wikipedia online
encyclopedia launched
2005 Reddit entertainment
& social networking
2003 LinkedIn networking
for businesspeople & Skype
2006 Facebook for everyone
2007 Twitter bursts onto
the scene at SXSW
2013 Vine short video
sharing app
2015 Meerkat debuts at SXSW
2011 GroupMe
debuts at SXSW &
Google+ launches
2014 Edward Snowden
speaks at SXSW via Skype
2009 Foursquare &
Gowalla appear at SXSW
2012 Snapchat
private image sharing &
Tinder dating app
2010 Twitter's
Evan Williams & Spotify's
Daniel Ek deliver keynotes
at SXSW. Instagram public
image sharing app arrives
2004 Jonathan Abrams,
founder & CEO of Friendster, speaks at SXSW
2004 Flickr photo album
sharing & The Facebook
for Harvard students
2002 Friendster
social networking introduced
2003 MySpace public
commenting & private messages
2005 YouTube video streaming
2007 Tumblr microblogging debuts
2008 Mark Zuckerberg
speaks at SXSW
2017
