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> When it debuted on the internet in 2004, Facebook seemed like a revolutionary innovation. A way for millions of people to engage with one another on a central
by chmod775 5y ago
> When it debuted on the internet in 2004, Facebook seemed like a revolutionary innovation. A way for millions of people to engage with one another on a central virtual platform.
That's quite a load of revisionist history right there. Facebook was neither the first, nor the first large platform or what we today call social network to enable that.
It's differentiating factors were that it was web-based, easy to use, and managed to stick around.
- inciampati 5y agoIt is very revisionist. But it was certainly not special in being web based or easy to use. MySpace, for instance, was far more web based than Facebook has ever been. The major differentiating feature was the marketing model that drove it's initial rollout. It was progressively released to a handful of elite US universities. This led to demand and excitement as it was further expanded. What's striking is that this specific plan was stolen. Without this marketing trick, I sincerely doubt that thefacebook.com would have survived and grown into it's current form.