Remember when Facebook was called Thefacebook and looked like this? I can’t believe I’ve been on it for almost six years, since summer 2004.
I joined thefacebook 4/2/2004, about 2 months after it started, upon an invite from a friend (who was a Cornellian, obviously, because you couldn’t connect with people outside your school then, IIRC). It felt really small - there were only 2-3 pages of people across the entire school and they didn’t have the pagination quite right because you’d see some of the same people on successive pages. And it was the most addicting site I’d ever been on (my first social network) because you could see and learn so much. Everyone could be a Peeping Tom.
And now? We’ve got the rise of startups like GoodCrush (we share the same office) who are creating “a site like Facebook, but for college students.”
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What Facebook looked like when it launched 6 years ago. Thank goodness it got out of the ugly pimply stage pretty...
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emilyinternet:mariellie:thepursuit:mikehudack:soupsoup:woodlandcreature:...Wow!...
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ah! i totally remember that! i miss thefacebook. i can’t believe i’ve been on it since fall 04. LOL
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Ancient Facebook back in 2004. I don’t even remember this.
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ugh facebook. i remember i used kelly’s account once to look someone up before i had my yale email address. why, you...
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I miss this. I was wondering about the course listings a little while ago.
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Shout out to BU. (Please note that we got Facebook before BC.) How we fit into this list of ivies is completely beyond...
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remember wondering...wrong with all the Penn kids....
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Wow, I remember when I got FB and it was only open to other college kids. Those were good times. Now it’s the most...
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That was the best feature! It always helped answer the “do I talk to the cute boy who sits next to me in my Black...
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it had a list of courses for your university & you could connect with people in your classes too!
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remember when there was a list of schools that were on there, and it was maybe 25-50? no parents, no children, no pets....
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