Internet History
This decade saw the rise of personal websites, dial-up internet, and AOL chat rooms.
What are the 1990s?
This video-sharing site, launched in 2005, revolutionized how people watch and share content.
What is YouTube?
It enables users to craft and present a digital identity or online persona.
What is social media?
A piece of content that spreads rapidly online, often humorously.
What is a meme?
"Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.
The most popular online service provider throughout the 1990s.
What is America Online (AOL)?
Known for images and short captions, this app helped launch the careers of many influencers.
What is Instagram?
This popular social media site was founded by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg in 2008.
What is Facebook?
A phrase that describes a post, video, or meme being widely shared online.
What is "going viral?"
This rap duo's cover of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" received huge airplay on MTV and helped the emerging hip hop genre go mainstream.
What is Run-DMC?
This early platform let users share homemade music mixes and caused controversy in the music industry.
What is Napster?
This platform focuses on short-form video content and quickly became a space for viral trends and music promotion.
What is TikTok?
This term describes the phenomenon in which social media users see only content that matches their beliefs.
What is an echo chamber?
A strategy for creators and brands to boost engagement by prompting followers to create videos that perform an action, like a dance move.
What is a TikTok Challenge?
This streaming service transformed how people consume music by offering millions of songs on demand.
What is Spotify?
An early form of “influencer culture” appeared on this once-popular social networking site. It was the most popular socialnetworking site from 2005-09.
What is MySpace?
Twitch is primarily used for streaming this form of entertainment.
What are video games?
Someone with a significant online following who can influence the purchasing decisions of their audience due to their authority, expertise, or popularity.
What is an influencer?
This type of media, according to a 2022 study, accounted for 82 percent of Internet traffic.
What is video?
Fashion trends often go viral after influencers wear them on these two main platforms.
What are TikTok and Instagram?
The introduction of this device in 2007 made access to teh Internet available anytime, anywhere.
What is the IPhone?
By 1997, users were spending more than one million hours chatting – whether in chat rooms or in this internet service provider’s newly released standalone Instant Messenger service – every day.
What is America Online?
A business and employment-oriented social network that was launched on May 5, 2003.
What is LinkedIn?
According to a 2021 study, around 500 million stories are uploaded every day on this platform.
What is Instagram?
A subgenre of alternative rock that became popular in the early 1990s, thanks to bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam, that blends elements of punk rock and heavy metal, often characterized by angsty lyrics, distorted guitars, and powerful vocals.
What is Grunge Rock?