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Facebook - the complete biography (mashable.com)
6 points by sharpshoot on March 19, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



They missed the brilliant viral marketing that gave thefacebook it's start at Harvard.

Harvard had an intranet facebook like system, where you could browse pictures of freshmen living in your dorm. Zuckerberg went around plugging into each dorm downloading all the pictures.

He put the pictures up on facemash.com in a Hot-or-Not style competition. Harvard shut him down and the rest is history.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=350143




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