The Ultimate Time Machine: Social Media from 1960 - 2012 [Infographic]

What if your favorite social networks from the past hadn’t shut down? This timeline from Citizen Brando projects the user bases of social networks past and present, from the original version of the Internet service provider CompuServe in the 1960’s to Pinterest and Google+.

It covers a lot of the forgotten social networks, like classmates.com; moves through check-in services like Gowalla (which just shut down this week after Facebook bought it); and culminates in a network you might not have tried yet: a UK-based site called GetLunched

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