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I could've made a web app like Facebook before Zucherburg

• beamatronic 10y ago
  There actually were apps just like it - Orkut and Friendster for example. Facebook was originally somewhat exclusive, I believe you had to have a .edu email address to sign up.
  • amyjess 10y ago
    > Facebook was originally somewhat exclusive, I believe you had to have a .edu email address to sign up. You actually had to have an email address at one of the specific universities Facebook supported. Over their first few years, they slowly rolled out Facebook to more and more universities, one at a time, and then they started adding high schools and corporations as well. I remember my college being super excited when Facebook finally rolled out to us in spring 2005.
    • beamatronic 10y ago
      I think this did two things, it made an "exclusive" club that people wanted to get into, and it also improved the signal to noise ratio versus a wide-open sign up