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Little known fact about Zuckerberg and Facebook; the idea and the name came from his high school, Phillips Exeter Academy. Exeter has always had a physical han
by espadagroup 15y ago
Little known fact about Zuckerberg and Facebook; the idea and the name came from his high school, Phillips Exeter Academy. Exeter has always had a physical handbook of everyone's photo and names that was handed out to all students each year called, "The Exeter Facebook". I would know since I was in the same dorm as Zuckerberg around that time (it was a boarding school).
- smanek 15y agoFrom my understanding, most schools used to have hard copy facebooks. I've read Harvard definitely had a (per house) online facebook back when Zuckerberg was a freshman (and, interestingly, still did as of at least ~2008).
- cheez 15y ago"The Facebook" is a common thing in many organizations. Even companies had them before the popular website existed.
- joshu 15y agoYep. I still have my freshman facebook from CMU in 1992.
- enf 15y agoAt the University of Chicago it was called the "pic book" instead.
- _pius 15y agoLittle known fact about Zuckerberg and Facebook; the idea and the name came from his high school, Phillips Exeter Academy ... I would know since I was in the same dorm as Zuckerberg around that time (it was a boarding school). Exeter was certainly neither the first nor the only place to have a paper facebook. Harvard, MIT, and most summer camps all had the same thing at that time and years prior.
- espadagroup 15y agoApparently I was ill informed. My bad.