> wouldn't something like Facebook have been also very difficult to conceive? Nah. It was obvious to me from my first encounter with text-based internet that t

> wouldn't something like Facebook have been also very difficult to conceive? Nah. It was obvious to me from my first encounter with text-based internet that this was going to be a social phenomenon that would link the world together. BBS, forums, myspace were all incremental improvements. Facebook just caught the wave with the right timing and did friend recommendations effectively.