Snapchat
It's from 2011, when you were 5.
- Maker
- Snap Inc.
- Type
- Multimedia messaging
- Debuted
- 2011
- Note
- Turned down a reported $3 billion from Facebook
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About
As of 2026, it's 15 years old.
Snapchat appeared in 2011 with a genuinely radical pitch: messages that vanish, so you don't have to live forever with that photo. It was built by Stanford students and famously turned down a reported $3 billion offer from Facebook — a 'no' that a lot of business professors still bring up.
It gave the world the disappearing message, the Story format that everyone copied, and the dog-ear face filter that single-handedly redefined how millions of people take selfies.
Ephemeral, playful, and deeply confusing to anyone over 40, Snapchat made 'streaks' a friendship obligation and turned vanishing into a feature, not a bug.
