Facebook roots can be traced back to 1993 company AboutFace

Some user posted this on the last zucc general and i found it very interesting

Facebook's beginnings are questionable.

The domain, trademark, and idea for facebook(tm) was started in 1994: web.archive.org/web/20071020073143/http://www.aboutface.com/about.html

With a very familiar backstory: web.archive.org/web/19991007181610/http://www.aboutface.com/site/company_history.htm

And even servers at Harvard, who ran these?: web.archive.org/web/20071020073130/http://www.aboutface.com/about_customers.html

So, this company which sent black boxes to corporations and universities, had “facebook(tm)” servers running facebook like software, at Harvard at the time Zuckerberg “created” fb. Well, Zuck misconfigured his about-face server once: web.archive.org/web/20171120120522/https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081105224058AApki9Y

Also calls itself facebook circa 2005:
web.archive.org/web/20050308105626/http://www.aboutface.com:80/comp_facebook.html

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Facebook
twitter.com/AnonBabble

old news

i certainly didnt know about it before i read it in that thread desu

The people who fall for these conspiracy theories are always so retarded. Do you not understand that "a facebook" is a term that existed for decades?

I think you may be giving them way too much credit.

ok if true

i dont think so

Just how Alphabet agencies helped Google get on their feet as a startup its pretty obvious the same thing has happened here
obvious its true.

Tech like this doesnt happen in a vacuum

AboutFace Corporation provides picture scanning and editing services through our KICK START service,
>OUR KICK START SERVICE
omeg does this mean KICKSTARTER was born here too?
BIG IF TRUE

isnt that just a bunch of jargon?

It's not like people sometimes get the same ideas, right? Or someone release a similar product later and get's more success than the original? Never happened before, right?
And it's not like "facebook" was a general term for fucking decades, nope not at all.

I really find the first bullet point hilarious.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Facebook
Really makes me think

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HUMONGOUS IF ACCURATE
LARGE SHLONG IF DONG

Now THAT is odd.
>200k for a domain for a site that has no reputation yet

Someone supplied him the dough it seems.
Poor Tom from Myspace never had a chance.

yet watch Jow Forums gloss over it

this might be better for Jow Forums, perhaps the "unspeakable lost Jow Forums" if you know what I mean.

>Facebook
>face book
>bace fook
>base fuck
>all your base are belong to us
This is big guys.

This thread really made me think.

4jew
>implying Jow Forums isnt tinfoil greyhat central

The real question is, why would you want to see a virtual book full of faces?

Appreciate guessing

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isnt it based off the school yearbook system and pre internet uni in the 80-90s ?
what does that pic mean?

Appreciate guessing

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namefaggotry mental illness?

You never appreciate guessing!

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is this some nig nogs in the cotton fields running from their owners under the full moon?

You will appreciate guessing!

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this namefaggot is trying to derail the thread