I was a freshman at Columbia at the time. CUcommunity's interface was MySpace-esque. The first version of Facebook was very spartan. No photos other than your p

I was a freshman at Columbia at the time. CUcommunity's interface was MySpace-esque. The first version of Facebook was very spartan. No photos other than your profile pic, no wall, no messages. Basically nothing other than your info page. The upshot was that you used all of Facebook's features and a (small) subset of CUcommunity's. Facebook was several months ahead on spreading to other schools, and that was huge. Probably the decisive factor. By the time CUcommunity spread (rechristened as CampusNetwork), I think Wayne is right that it was simply way too late. By the beginning of summer 2004, Facebook's position on college campuses was pretty obviously unassailable. Edit: found some screenshots of CUcommunity/CampusNetwork: http://www.wikicu.com/CampusNetwork http://www.wikicu.com/CampusNetwork