Around 20 years ago, friends in college used this French social networking website Zdarmanet. We mostly used it as a distributed contact list. I often wonder w

Around 20 years ago, friends in college used this French social networking website Zdarmanet. We mostly used it as a distributed contact list. I often wonder what it could've been if they had been a bit more aggressively commercial. Realistically though, the strong (at the time) French database and computer privacy laws likely would've prevented it from every doing the slow-boil takeover that Facebook accomplished. In the end, even those laws were ineffective in handling the foreign behemoth that Facebook became. Edit: website is now closed, displaying "After more than 15 years I am stopping this service. Sorry... in case you would need anything related to that please see notojo.cz for how to contact me." and I guess it was of Czeck origin, not French?