The NSA has allegedly had
means of monitoring internet communications as far back as Microsoft's Windows 95, the first version of Windows with built-in internet connectivity, in 1995. This project appears to have begun with monitoring in September 2007 of user data going to and from Microsoft.
Microsoft was the first to be included, in September 2007. Yahoo followed in March 2008, Google in January 2009, Facebook in June 2009, Paltalk in December 2009, YouTube in September 2010, Skype in February 2011, AOL in March 2011 and Apple in October 2012.
PRISM is a constant and real-time system that monitors everything that the user does in telecommunications such as: IP, VoIP (internet phone calls), Credit Card Activity, Chat (video, voice), Internet websites, E-mail, Posts, videos and photos, Skype, Stored data, Downloads, Login notifications and online social networking details.