Whatever happened to King Henry VIII? Oh, that's right. He's alive and well and enjoying Facebook...

Back in August BrightSolid, owners of a few online genealogy websites including findmypast.com and the recently published 1911 census, agreed to buy Genes Reunited from ITV.

The social ideology was a fundamental part of the development of Web 2.0 where user-generated content is key. The beginnings of social media were first seen 10 years ago in 1999 by Darcy DiNucci who wrote

The Web we know now, which loads into a browser window in essentially static screenfuls, is only an embryo of the Web to come. The first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to appear, and we are just starting to see how that embryo might develop The Web will be understood not as screenfuls of text and graphics but as a transport mechanism, the ether through which interactivity happens. It will [...] appear on your computer screen, [...] on your TV set [...] your car dashboard [...] your cell phone [...] hand-held game machines [...] maybe even your microwave oven.

DiNucci, Darcy. (1999). "Fragmented Future". Print 53 (4): 32.

When reference to social media is made, things generally don't get further than the relative newcomers to the Internet - Facebook and Twitter.