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* 1 idea he stole as a 19-year-old I'm not big on people complaining about "idea stealing", but zuck is in a league of his own with this shit, so worth pointin

* 1 idea he stole as a 19-year-old I'm not big on people complaining about "idea stealing", but zuck is in a league of his own with this shit, so worth pointing out that he didn't have the idea for FB.

wpietri 5y ago
Excellent point, and I totally agree. Thanks for the correction.
smoldesu 5y ago
grumble grumble Good artists copy... grumble grumble
patentatt 5y ago
Stole or just copied, the 'idea' of a social network wasn't novel by the time fb came around. Credit where it's due, it was executed well in the early stages and had the unique twist of being college-only at the beginning. People don't remember that when fb started gaining traction, friendster was already very much a thing but was stumbling hard on execution. I remember the friendster site being just dog slow. Myspace and Hi5 were also in the mix before or right at the same time as fb. Really just the PR/marketing angle and the not screwing up on execution are fb's claim to fame.
- aflag 5y ago
  Orkut was also out there and it was wildly more popular than Facebook in some parts of the world.
  - JetSpiegel 5y ago
    Bought and killed by Google, all the Brazillians migrated to WhatsApp.
    - aflag 5y ago
      I think it was originally made by google, not bought by them.
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- tablespoon 5y ago
  > Stole or just copied, the 'idea' of a social network wasn't novel by the time fb came around. IIRC, the idea he stole wasn't "social networking," it was "social networking for elite kids at Harvard." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook#Facebook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook#Facebook: > Just six days after the launch of the site, three Harvard University seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing that he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, but instead using their idea to build a competing product.[21] The three complained to the Crimson, and the newspaper began an investigation. Zuckerberg knew about the investigation so he used TheFacebook.com to find members in the site who identified themselves as members of the Crimson. He examined a history of failed logins to see if any of the Crimson members had ever entered an incorrect password into TheFacebook.com. In the cases in which they had failed to log in, Zuckerberg tried to use them to access the Crimson members' Harvard email accounts, and he was successful in accessing two of them. In the end, three Crimson members filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg which was later settled.[21][22]
FormerBandmate 5y ago
Honestly, HarvardConnection would have been just MySpace but solely for Harvard users. Forums have been around since what, the 1980s (as BBSs)?

wpietri 5y ago

Excellent point, and I totally agree. Thanks for the correction.

smoldesu 5y ago

grumble grumble Good artists copy... grumble grumble

patentatt 5y ago

Stole or just copied, the 'idea' of a social network wasn't novel by the time fb came around. Credit where it's due, it was executed well in the early stages and had the unique twist of being college-only at the beginning. People don't remember that when fb started gaining traction, friendster was already very much a thing but was stumbling hard on execution. I remember the friendster site being just dog slow. Myspace and Hi5 were also in the mix before or right at the same time as fb. Really just the PR/marketing angle and the not screwing up on execution are fb's claim to fame.

aflag 5y ago
Orkut was also out there and it was wildly more popular than Facebook in some parts of the world.
- JetSpiegel 5y ago
  Bought and killed by Google, all the Brazillians migrated to WhatsApp.
  - aflag 5y ago
    I think it was originally made by google, not bought by them.
- deleted 5y ago
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tablespoon 5y ago
> Stole or just copied, the 'idea' of a social network wasn't novel by the time fb came around. IIRC, the idea he stole wasn't "social networking," it was "social networking for elite kids at Harvard." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook#Facebook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook#Facebook: > Just six days after the launch of the site, three Harvard University seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing that he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, but instead using their idea to build a competing product.[21] The three complained to the Crimson, and the newspaper began an investigation. Zuckerberg knew about the investigation so he used TheFacebook.com to find members in the site who identified themselves as members of the Crimson. He examined a history of failed logins to see if any of the Crimson members had ever entered an incorrect password into TheFacebook.com. In the cases in which they had failed to log in, Zuckerberg tried to use them to access the Crimson members' Harvard email accounts, and he was successful in accessing two of them. In the end, three Crimson members filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg which was later settled.[21][22]

FormerBandmate 5y ago

Honestly, HarvardConnection would have been just MySpace but solely for Harvard users. Forums have been around since what, the 1980s (as BBSs)?