I don’t know if the user interface was the same but yes, facebook started like this. With only pictures of women from the campus
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Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Isn’t this proto Facebook?
Poteau_Poutre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
IIRC this was just about voting on the hotness of random pictures, you couldn’t actually contact the person through the site or do any social media stuff. You’d just upload your photo, and be able to check back on how it scored later for an ego boost, bragging rights among your friends, or whatever.
papalonian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Facebook was originally literally just a database of pictures of people from the school Zuck went to and a bunch of people deciding if they were, in fact, hot or not.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Excellent point!