Launched in 2012, Bubblews is a social blogging platform that pays members for receiving likes and comments on their posts. Since the website’s founding, Bubblews.com has grown to reach a position among the top 1,500 most popular sites in the world. Bubblews’ unique and forward-thinking ad revenue sharing model has many in the tech industry believing it could be the future of the social media industry.

2.  Launched in 2012, Bubblews is a social
blogging platform that pays members for
receiving likes and comments on their posts.
Since the website’s founding,
Bubblews.com has grown to reach a
position among the top 1,500 most popular
sites in the world. Bubblews’ unique and
forward-thinking ad revenue sharing model
has many in the tech industry believing it
could be the future of the social media
industry.

3.  Early networking systems paved the way for
modern social media platforms. In the late
1960s, CompuServe became the first
commercial Internet service provider, and a
few years later, the first e-mails were sent.
The late 1970s saw the advent of the
bulletin board system (BBS) that allowed
users to share information and post
announcements. Although rudimentary in
appearance, BBS platforms acted much
like modern social media sites.

4.  The 1990s saw the birth of the World Wide
Web, which provided the modern
infrastructure for social media platforms.
Blogging also began during this decade, as
did Blogger and other blogging software.
AOL Instant Messenger entered the scene
in 1997, followed a year later by the release
of Google. Finally, in 1999, Friends Reunited
emerged as one of the earliest legitimate
social media platforms. Founded in Great
Britain, it focused on connecting old school
friends.