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ben_wyesterday at 6:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

He copied the analog thing of the same name in his university that was taking too long to digitise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book


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soperjyesterday at 6:06 PM

There's a whole movie about it. He was employed to create a social media platform, and ended up stealing the code to do it for himself instead.

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gowldyesterday at 6:29 PM

It was already digitized. He wanted to make a version without security and privacy protections.

He also copied Friendster.