Remembering Social Media's True Inventor:

In late March of 2006, a college dropout named Jack Dorsey finished coding a site for Internet users to post 140-character messages. It was called twttr. Dorsey and his co-founders eventually added vowels to the service, forming Twitter. The name made total sense. "The definition was 'a short burst of inconsequential information' and 'chirps from birds,' " Dorsey said. "And that's exactly what the product was." Internet histories record Dorsey's first tweet as a pivotal moment in the rise of social media. They are wrong. The history of social media began almost two centuries earlier, on May 24, 1844, when Samuel F.B. Morse, a painter-turned-inventor, sent a message from Washington to Baltimore. Back then, Morse wasn't typing with his thumbs but was instead tapping dots and dashes "on a device of cogs and coiled wires," as one historian later put it. While the telegraph had been around in idea and rudimentary form, Morse devised a way to use electricity for sending a series of codes signaling letters of the alphabet.

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