the frist online meeting place was begun by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess in 1978 in Chicago. The city was covered in snow and it was difficult to move about so, in order to contact their friends and colleagues, Christensen and Suess began to work on the"Computerized Bulletin Board System or CBBS. It was the first online meeting place! Users could download files or games and post messages to other users. media was Another landmark in the history of social a virtual CompuServe which began in the 1970s. It was a virtual meeting place for business people but then in the 1980s it was opened to the general public. CompuServe allowed members to share files and access news, but it also offered something news, This was the real beginning of modern social media