thefacebook.com was a private re-implementation of Harvard's "online face books", which were a digital ports of the paper "face book" that had been distributed

thefacebook.com was a private re-implementation of Harvard's "online face books", which were a digital ports of the paper "face book" that had been distributed at Harvard for decades prior to the creation of the website. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book