https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut#Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut#Origins Orkut was quietly launched on January 22, 2004 by Google. Orkut Büyükkö

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut#Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut#Origins Orkut was quietly launched on January 22, 2004 by Google. Orkut Büyükkökten, a Turkish software engineer, developed it as an independent project while working at Google. While previously working for Affinity Engines, he had developed a similar system, InCircle, intended for use by university alumni groups. In late June 2004, Affinity Engines filed suit against Google, claiming that Büyükkökten and Google had based Orkut on InCircle code. The allegation is based on the presence of 9 identical bugs in Orkut that also existed in InCircles.