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I was studying abroad when Facebook started expanding beyond Harvard. I was in a dorm filled with liberal arts students from across the US. I remember when abo
by citizenkeen 6y ago
I was studying abroad when Facebook started expanding beyond Harvard. I was in a dorm filled with liberal arts students from across the US.
I remember when about a third of us got "approved" for Facebook, and two thirds were just jealously wondering why their elite private liberal art schools weren't "good enough". I've never seen a clearer case of envy/FOMO.
- searchableguy 6y agoI artificial dislike artificial scarcity created by startups because they don't have something useful I would pay right away for. Share our site and you will get moved up in the queue and I will say no. It's okay to limit initial users but this is manipulative behaviour. I wonder if I should make an extension or site to list them all.
- dvtrn 6y agoI’d be curious to see such a list, just out of my own morbid curiosity.
- Nbox9 6y ago> artificial scarcity Remember, Facebook was running on a PHP backend. Apache spins up an entire _process_ for every HTTP request it receives. Facebook was most likely buying their own hardware. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were running their servers at capacity and dealing with both hardware and software scaling issues. Edit: FB is also an image heavy website, which at the time was considered a heavy website.