Fair enough, but note that they weren't first. I agree that my impression of facebook when I started using it (around '04) I think, was "what is this, like sev

Fair enough, but note that they weren't first. I agree that my impression of facebook when I started using it (around '04) I think, was "what is this, like seven php files? I could make this!", but by the time of their IPO I thought it was pretty well polished. It's accumulated a lot of cruft since then.