A Survey on Historical Developments of Social Network Sites: From Geocities to Global.com: Tracing the Evolution of Social Network Sites

Abstract

Social network sites (SNSs) is of recent origin, just 2 decades back SNSs got its existence. Geocities was the first SNS created in 1994 which provided the users to create and customize their own web sites. The Global.com which was launched in 1995 facilitated the users to interact with people who shared common hobbies and interests. This paper will give the brief description about the historical developments of social networking websites.