> someone else came up with/suggested original The Facebook name. It was a tradition on Harvard campus that academic Houses published their own facebooks. The

> someone else came up with/suggested original The Facebook name. It was a tradition on Harvard campus that academic Houses published their own facebooks. The people Zuck stole the idea from were making a digital version. Here's a piece about it from Harvard's newspaper in 2004: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/9/hundreds-register-for-new-facebook-website/ http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/9/hundreds-register... >Lisa H. Feigenbaum ’04 said that she joined thefacebook.com because it provided an open alternative to the password-protected House facebooks. Harvard was also trying to make their own before students did it: >“There is a project internally with computer services to create a facebook,” Davis said. “We’ve been in touch with the Undergraduate Council, and this is a very high priority for the College. We have every intention of completing the facebook by the end of the spring semester.” This is one of the most telling parts of the whole story: >Davis said that the principle complication with the creation of an official facebook was figuring out how to design an interface so that directory information could not easily be compiled without authorization.