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 22 hours ago
Isn’t this proto Facebook?
Poteau_Poutre@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 20 hours 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 19 hours 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 18 hours ago
Excellent point!