 Message forums (a specific structure of social media) arose with the BBS phenomenon throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.When the World Wide Web (WWW, or "the web") was added to the Internet in the mid-1990s, message forums migrated to the web, becoming Internet forums, primarily due to cheaper per-person access as well as the ability to handle far more people simultaneously than telco modem banks.Digital imaging and semiconductor image sensor technology facilitated the development and rise of social media.