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Data Encoding and Processing Guide

President Dwight Eisenhower created the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in 1958 to boost American innovation and ensure technological superiority over the Soviet Union. ARPA funded the development of ARPANET, one of the earliest computer networks, which later became known as the Internet. In the 1980s and 1990s, early forms of social networking emerged through state-run computer networks, multiplayer online games, and early social networking sites like SixDegrees and LiveJournal which allowed users to connect with friends. The most successful early sites were Friendster in 2002 and Facebook in 2004, which originally launched as a closed network just for Harvard students before expanding globally.

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Data Encoding and Processing Guide

President Dwight Eisenhower created the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in 1958 to boost American innovation and ensure technological superiority over the Soviet Union. ARPA funded the development of ARPANET, one of the earliest computer networks, which later became known as the Internet. In the 1980s and 1990s, early forms of social networking emerged through state-run computer networks, multiplayer online games, and early social networking sites like SixDegrees and LiveJournal which allowed users to connect with friends. The most successful early sites were Friendster in 2002 and Facebook in 2004, which originally launched as a closed network just for Harvard students before expanding globally.

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Before Facebook there was MySpace. Before MySpace there was LiveJournal. But before "social
networking" was even an accepted term, how did social networking get started?

Minnesota's state-run MECC and TIES computer systems offered many Minnesotans the first access to
such things as e-mail, chat, discussion forums (just like The Well a decade later), and online interactive
games, long before the rest of the world.

Also developing in the 1980s and 1990s was the use of multiplayer online games.

Players could also type real-time messages during the game. This was in the mid-1990s

Most researchers point to [Link] as the first social networking site on the public Internet. That
was created in 1997 and it let people connect by making lists of friends.

LiveJournal arrived in 1999, a network of blogs that encouraged users to follow their friends.

The desire to connect with friends led to the most successful of the early online networking sites,
Friendster, in 2002.

LinkedIn arrived in 2003 for business users, although most of the site's social features came later.

Also in 2003, MySpace launched as a reaction to Friendster's more strict rules of community. It grew
quickly, especially in late 2004-early 2005.

In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg created "The Facebook" as a closed network just for Harvard University
students. It spread to various universities and then launched to the rest of the world in 2006.
Today, that social network claims a half-billion active users.

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