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Reliable Products for Your Security and Communication Needs VOLUME 29 : ISSUE 5 MAY 2017 Connect with Us! The History of Social Media Want help picking out a product? Need a product Although social media seems like• Browse the Viking website: manual? a new trend, sites like Facebook www.VikingElectronics.com are the natural progression of centuries of social development• Call us: 715-386-8861 • Browse leading to the present, where the Viking social media has become an• Send us an email: website: integral part of modern society. [email protected] www.VikingElectronics.com Early Social Media Have a technical Since 1969 Viking has been • Type in the “DOD” number, question? supplying the security and a 3-digit number assigned The earliest methods of commu- communications industry to each product for quick nicating across great distances• Browse the Viking website: with reliable, high-quality access to the manual used written correspondence www.VikingElectronics.com American-made products. delivered by hand from one • “Search” for a model person to another. The earliest• Check out the Tech Support We stand behind our number, keyword, or form of postal service dates back Forum online products with a 2 year limited description to 550 B.C., and this primitive delivery system would become• Call us: 715-386-8861 warranty and free lifetime • Call us: 715-386-8861 more widespread and streamlined product support. in future centuries. • Send us an email: [email protected] In 1792, the telegraph was invented which allowed messages• Send us an email: Stay up-to-date with the to be delivered over a long latest news and information: distance much faster than a horse [email protected] and rider could carry them. Although telegraph messages • Follow us on social media were short, they were a revolu- tionary way to convey news and • Sign-up for our email newsletter information. • Visit us at trade shows nationwide The telephone was invented in 1890 and the radio just one year • Browse the Viking website: later, in 1891. Both technologies www.VikingElectronics.com are still in use today, although the modern versions are much more From old school to tech savvy, sophisticated than their predeces-Viking makes it easy to stay in touch! sors. Telephone lines and radio signals enabled people to communicate across great distances instantaneously, something that mankind had never experienced before. Continued on page 3...



The History of Social MediaContinued from page 1...20th Century Social MediaAfter the first super computers werecreated in the 1940s, scientists andengineers began to develop ways tocreate networks between thosecomputers, and this would later leadto the birth of the Internet.The earliest forms of the Internet,such as ARPANET, were developedin the 1960s. This early Internet wasextremely complex, and only usedby computer experts, engineers,scientists, and librarians.By the 1970s, networking technolo-gy had improved and Bulletin BoardSystems (BBSs) came online. Thesewere the first type of sites thatallowed users to log on and interactwith each other. Unfortunately, BBSshad a reputation for hosting riskyand illegal materials like virus codeand hacking instructions.In the 1980s, home computers werebecoming more common and socialmedia was growing more sophisti-cated. Internet relay chats, or IRCs,were first used in the late 1980s andcontinued to be popular well into the1990s.The first recognizable social mediasite (that most people agree on), isSix Degrees, created in 1997. Itenabled users to upload a profileand make friends with other users.In the late 1990s, the first bloggingsites became popular, spurring onthe social media phenomenon.PresentSocial media has come a long waysince the days of BBSs and IRCchats. With major social networksand social media sites makingchanges and improvements daily,social media will continue to evolvein the coming years.It’s not just a phase, and likely won’tgo away any time soon… at leastuntil something better comes along.Sources:https://smallbiztrends.com/2013/05/the-complete-history-of-so-cial-media-infographic.htmlhttps://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/the-history-and-evo-lution-of-social-media/

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