BlackPlanet was launched on September 1, 2001 by Omar Wasow, an Internet analyst, who in 2001 was running New York Online, a pre-web community he started in 1993 from his living room in Brooklyn. It was the brainchild of Wasow and Community Connects CEO Benjamin Sun.

Is called the BlackPlanet of the solar system?

TrES-2b (TrES-2 or Kepler-1b) is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star GSC 03549-02811 located 750 light years away from the Solar System. The planet has been identified in 2011 as the darkest known exoplanet, reflecting less than 1% of any light that hits it.

What was the first ever social media?

Six Degrees The first social media site was Six Degrees, made by Andrew Weinreich in 1997. Six Degrees was pretty popular with users until 2003. Thats when Tom Anderson made MySpace. This new site let users make profiles that played their favorite music.