Social networks and apps
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Order by the year each social network or app launched to the public. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Social networks and apps
Order by the year each social network or app launched to the public. You place all 35 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
35
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
Ordered by
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Card reveal
How the social networks timeline game works
The cards are social networks, messaging apps and sharing sites, and you sort them by the year each launched to the public. A short line under each name says what the service did. You begin with one already on the timeline, year shown. For each card after that, pick the gap where you think it fits. Nail it and the year appears; miss and the card moves to its rightful spot, taking one of your three lives with it.
The deck reaches from dial-up friend lists to the newest attempts at a public square, with a crowded stretch in the middle when it seemed a new network launched every month. Launch here means opening to the public, which can be well before a service became popular, or before you joined. Messaging apps and networks that were big in other countries are easy to misjudge if you never used them. The taglines help most with the sites that faded away.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 35 cards you might be dealt, with 7 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Classmates.com Reconnect with old high school friends
- SixDegrees Early friend-list network
- LiveJournal Blogging and online diary community
- Friendster Mountain View friend network
- Myspace Customizable profiles and band pages
- Orkut Google's network, huge in Brazil and India
- Facebook Started for Harvard students
- Flickr Photo sharing from Ludicorp
- Reddit Forums called subreddits
- Bebo Social network big in the UK and Ireland
- YouTube Video sharing site
- Twitter Short posts, later renamed X
- WhatsApp Messaging app later bought by Facebook
- Foursquare Check in at places, become mayor
- Weibo Chinese microblogging site from Sina
- Instagram Filtered photo sharing for iPhone
- Google+ Google's network built on circles
- Snapchat Disappearing photo messages
- Twitch Live streaming spun off from Justin.tv
- WeChat Tencent's everything app
- Telegram Cloud-based messaging app
- Musical.ly Lip-sync video app
- Discord Voice and text chat servers for gamers
- Mastodon Decentralized, open-source microblogging
- Clubhouse Drop-in audio chat rooms
- BeReal One photo a day at a random moment
- Truth Social Donald Trump's social platform
- Threads Meta's text app tied to Instagram
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