Lets be honest, its all well and good having an idea, but you've got to realize that idea and get something out there. Zuckerberg did it. Aaron is now seething with jealousy he didn't.
While I was in kindergarten I made something which I called a 'facebook' containing drawings, albeit of a potato headed nature, of members of my group. Each page had their age, name and what they loved. Do you think I could sue?
Ann
· 2 years ago
You should sue them. It is on file. They might cut you a share and if they dont you can go to the newspapers about the stress it caused you! I am from the Uk and I heard a guy in the US sued his dry cleaner for £5 billion for ironing his suit poorly. He lost but many win. Good luck. Ann
Google
· 2 years ago
Virtually every successful project was influenced by a previous concept.
MySpace was influenced by several others, Craigslist and Digg has several imitators, even Google is being sued over the Adwords concept.
Look at the many Endgaget and Gizmodo imitators have debuted over the past year.
Surely Mashable was influenced by TechCruch's success ;-)
WarriorBlog
· 2 years ago
Does it really matter who invented FaceBook? I don't think it make any difference for the people if I invented or you invented it to the people.
Just my opinion...
Sam
· 2 years ago
This is somewhat different to many of those examples. They had ACTUAL websites which the idea was taken from. Here Aaron is claiming he had the idea of a glorified year book. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't most kids at school get people to sign their yearbook with sentiments (ok, insulting messages), anyway? I know I did.
"How this works: Simple, the aim of this is to get everyone on facebook to change their profile pics on the 1st of October 2007
Why: for the fun of it, why else ? "
Geoffrey McCaleb
· 2 years ago
While I didn't invent Facebook, I did come up with the concept of "poking" when I was just an infant and wanted my parents to pass me my Tonka truck.
If only I patented it, I would be filthy rich now.
Robert Walters
· 2 years ago
OK I admit it, I invented FaceBook for golfers. Heck I even invented golf. The golf ball, my idea. Golf clubs, oh yes mine. I belong to every country club as well because, well yes, I invented golf courses.
ladiamond
· 2 years ago
...yeah, that's the ticket.
Danj3ris
· 2 years ago
I know for a fact I didn't invent Facebook. What I did invent is a social networking website that never made it off the ground, but I still own the domain for, that was going to incorporate a number of features that Facebook and other social networks simply did not have.
It was around the time when Myspace was starting to show signs of age, and Facebook was "just an alternative".
Well, both Facebook and Myspace have incorporated those features, rendering my would be "new and different" social network obsolete before it began.
My business model must've been leaked onto the interwebs.
Mark Evans
· 2 years ago
I don't see how Greenberg has a claim to saying he started Facebook, or how he even convinced the New York Times to write about him. As far as I can tell from the story, he started a social networking company; and then Zuckerberg started one as well a few months later to compete. There's nothing to suggest Zuckerman stole Greenberg's code or ripped off his ideas.
On the other hand, the ConnectU people may (and I emphasize may) have a legitimate claim given that Zuckerberg did some programming for them.
electroblog
· 2 years ago
While I didn't invent Facebook, I did come up with the concept of "poking" when I was just an infant and wanted my parents to pass me my Tonka truck.
If only I patented it, I would be filthy rich now.
i am agree with you .
Tcruncher2
· 2 years ago
Let's be honest. I don't even live in America (Australia) and I developed a book called the "faces of many books" way back in 1995, when I was 15. I basically got out a scrap book and cut pictures of faces out of magazines and pasted them into this book and then let my whole family comment about these people.
It is obvious that I am the inventor of facebook and im happy not to take any court action, but I do want to be named the founder of facebook since I worked hard and I should be called the founder.
Andy
P.S - Im not sure what fkwit Aaron Greenspan thinks he is but a "founder" is typically associated to a company. You become a 'founder' when you actually found the company associated with the idea. Refer to Wikipedia for clarification 'An entrepreneur (a loanword from french introduced and first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon) is a person who undertakes and operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks.' - how the fk is Aaron Greenspan the founder ? Someone please enlighten me.
SuezanneCBaskerville
· 2 years ago
I invented facebook back in 1960, when I was six years old. In a fit of coding both precocious and procogniscient, I wrote all the code for a functioning facebook system in Second Life's "Linden Scripting Language" language LSL. Running this code inside the Second Life system, I knew, would be much too slow until Linden Lab gets Mono implemented, and thus I am still waiting to create the first instance of my prim based 3D original facebook prequel clone.
There were earlier facebooks, of course; Charles Baggage created designs for a mechanical Facebook device called Facebook Analytical Contrivance Entirely Built Out Of Cogs, or Facebooc. Had he been able to devise a device with a properly spelled acronym, who knows how the world might have changed as a result?
Facebook creation myths appear to predate written history, and some biologists suggest that the propensity for facebook creation results from a gene the creation of which predates the first appearance of mammals in the fossil record. Certain species of salamanders and koi have been known to enthrall viewers for hours with tales of their creation of amphibian facebook invention or other, fishy stories of the dawning of facebook.
Here's hoping to hear more tails of early facebooks.
photographworks
· 2 years ago
I didn't exactly invent facebook, but I invented faces, which is a necessary precursor.
Prior to me there were no faces, only blurry bits where you could see there should be something, but the details were left to me to figure out. Which I did, about the time I bought a pair of glasses.
Jean-Michel Decombe
· 2 years ago
Well, Facebook was actually invented in France. Yes, zee inventor is me. Zuckerberg stole zee name. I called it FesseBook, which is pronounced almost zee same. Fesse means "butt" in zee french language, and so it was a web site to connect students who want to get some action. Zee students could even specify where they wanted the action: on zee lawn, on zee table, against zee wall (oui oui, I invented zee wall concept too). Alas, I obviously cannot claim that any of those pretending to zee Facebook throne ever used my site. But I still want Zuckerberg to send me a dozen cases of California wines so zat I can steal zeir secrets, oui oui.
Susie
· 2 years ago
Sorry I've got some news for you. *I* invented Facebook in 1996. I was making a demo of Netscape Gold (remember THAT?) and at a conference took pictures of people with a digital camera, and laid them out yearbook style with links to each other's information. Oh wait, maybe it was LinkedIn that I invented. ;)
CountRob
· 2 years ago
Reminds me of the famous line said by Jobso in Pirates of Silicon Valley: "Good artists copy, but great artists steal."
Zuckerberg was the fool not to sell Facebook when he had the chance. Has NO ONE learned anything from Friendster?!?!
Chris Hambly
· 2 years ago
Around about the same I actually developed a system which was called "sign my ass", which was a great picture of, well, an ass, along with an embedded comments system.
Of course each new comment was posted on the ass..I was going to use a face (facebook), but I opted for the ass (assbook).
I didn't invent facebook, but I did invent amazon.com in about 1992. I was working in a bookshop and we got an internet connection, and I thought, hey, we could sell books online! We talked about it in the pub over a few beers and agreed it was a marvellous idea, before its time. Actually implementing it, though, would probably prove quite tricky, so my friends and I decided that we couldn't be arsed. We then had several more pints of beer, invented youtube, then went home and smoked many large bongs and invented virtual head-up displays facilitated by nano-scale transceivers in the bloodstream of the brain linked by ubiquitous ultrawideband wireless networks to globally-networked übercomputers, GPS, locative tagging, ambient informatics, gestural/haptic interfaces and so on. But in the morning we had forgotten all about it. So it goes.
SuezanneCBaskerville
· 2 years ago
so did I
Ryan
· 2 years ago
I invented peer-to-peer music sharing.
In the early 90's I used to trade live tapes of Phish and Blues Traveler over USENET before the Web even existed! We didn't pay any money for the music recordings, we just copied them and spread them along to others! Shawn Fanning was a total poser.
Rob
· 2 years ago
Well I invented all of you and all of your ideas. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't exist if I stopped thinking about you, so either send me some money or I'll do just that.
Marc
· 2 years ago
Look. It's Saturady. If there's no news to write about, just leave it alone. I'm only commenting in astonishment over the number of comments that a spam post is able to garner.
david
· 2 years ago
I'm gonna throw a tantrum, you all stole MY idea, I was the first. I had an idea that people would be able to take pictures of their poo, post them online and other people could rate my poo. I was going to call it www.faecesbook.com, but i opted in the end for the more highbrow www.ratemypoo.com. As for the wall, well, in my original idea you could write on my wall too, but in poo. hehe. (Sorry to lower the tone - don't check out www.ratemypoo.com unless you have a strong constitution).
jonston
· 2 years ago
@marc. You must be a blast at parties.
Patrick
· 2 years ago
All the claimants are Harvard students, right? Every Harvard freshman submits a photo/biodata to, and receives a copy of...you guessed it..."The Freshman Facebook". At least since I was matriculated in 1993. In fact every dorm had one for Upperclassman, too. Mosaic launched that year, too. So I'm quite positive that somebody in my class was the first Harvard student to launch a Facebook on the Internet. No it wasn't me.
Ricky Parker
· 2 years ago
Aaron Greenspan should thank Al Gore.
Because had Al not created the Internet then Aaron would have never invented FaceBook.
Andy
· 2 years ago
Just like Spartacus:
"I invented Facebook" "No, I invented Facebook" "I invented Facebook" "I invented Facebook"
mycutesmiley1
· 2 years ago
So you invented facebook why didnt you launch it like Zukerberg did? Because facebook is popular now you are jealous of them. Go invent something and launch it and stop messing around here. You will lose if you sue but I'm kinda getting the idea of this topic...you just want public attention. you better use it well, this is your time to launch a product dude!
ladiamond
· 2 years ago
A.G. just announced he is launching a "Facebook for businesses." Sounds like a real game changer.
mycutesmiley1
· 2 years ago
And yea i invented mycutegalaxy! www.mycutegalaxy.com what do you think? sue myspace? lol
mark
· 2 years ago
ya, nice try.
digitaldivide
· 2 years ago
you obviously haven't been following the evolution of DMT (Digital Mental Telepathy), you might have invented Facebook, but I invented the technology that Zukerburg evidently hacked to tap into your thoughts. Hacks can occur...haven't quite worked out all the bugs yet. But stay tuned, digital mind to mind over the Internet network is on the way!!
ladiamond
· 2 years ago
Pete, '97? Are you kidding me? The year was '79 - and I owned every color of Gap cords. Envied by all, yet I was cursed with the handwriting of a M.D. As you might imagine, this caused me much angst at yearbook signing time.
It was humiliating to sign friends yearbooks(especially the girls) and receive confused stares after they read my prose...that is until I came up with the idea to type(!) my comments onto their yearbooks... no wait, invent a program by which the yearbook and everyone's pictures (i.e., faces) would be on a computer. (DISCLOSURE: I didn't really get my IBM XT until '86.)
Of course, at this time, across the river at Harvard, there were a couple of geeks (before it was cool to be a geek) creating some kind of Window or something. Actually, that was my idea too. They stole it from me. They must have overheard me talking about it at the Harvard Coop one day. However, I called it "Doorway." Well, trying to launch two ideas simultaneously seemed like a lot of work, so I went to a kegger instead.
cihanmutlu
· 2 years ago
mrb
TheFraternity
· 2 years ago
I invented FaceBook
During the latter segment of 2003 a meeting took place between major education industry leaders to produce the first internet-based, inter-campus, international fraternity - "THEFraternity".com
The core of this revolutionary concept underlined the essence of FaceBook's goals and, not to mention, massive achievements.
Understandably the early bird catches the worm. In this instance the bird came so early that it overheard the worm's plans for the day, and got there first.
The genius
· 1 year ago
I invented facebook, not u, u liar. I also invented you. Yay. Also mcdonalds, burger king, nintendo, apple, and everything in the world. yay. :)
Marta Ferro
· 1 year ago
Me gustarÃa contactar a Michael Minerva de New York. Y a los amigos de mi adolescencia.
pip
· 8 months ago
erm well if you type in aaron dude on google image it just comes up with him. his face.. blah. but if you type in zuckerberg, it actually comes up with him next to facebook logos/even rugs whatever. it might just be a coincidenty thing, but he look more professional and i believe him. :}
leyasheena
· 7 months ago
yea eat my shit dude! bill gates wuz my dad but no one cared! i dun have this lame mashablie website cuz i am cool just send my a comment on you tube idiot. just search leyamon
ANONYMOUS
· 7 months ago
FUCK YOU ALL ! NONE OF U DARE TO REPLY ME? FUCK THIS FUCKING WEBSITE AND THE FUCKING MEMBERS OF THIS FUCKING WEBSITE! FUCK UR ASSES AND STICK TO FUCKING UR MOMS AND DADS THE INTERNET IS NOT UR THING
Porkmorphic
· 4 months ago
Actually you're wrong, I invented FaceBook.
Kuda
· 3 months ago
i invent fuckbook
kofikofi
· 3 months ago
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All Comments
While I was in kindergarten I made something which I called a 'facebook' containing drawings, albeit of a potato headed nature, of members of my group. Each page had their age, name and what they loved. Do you think I could sue?
I am from the Uk and I heard a guy in the US sued his dry cleaner for £5 billion for ironing his suit poorly.
He lost but many win.
Good luck.
Ann
MySpace was influenced by several others, Craigslist and Digg has several imitators, even Google is being sued over the Adwords concept.
Look at the many Endgaget and Gizmodo imitators have debuted over the past year.
Surely Mashable was influenced by TechCruch's success ;-)
Just my opinion...
www.facebookreboot.com
flipping interestesting, everyone is changing their profile pics on the 1st of oct 2007
30 Days left till the reboot, spread the word ;)
and join the group :
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6600820836
"How this works:
Simple, the aim of this is to get everyone on facebook to change their profile pics on the 1st of October 2007
Why:
for the fun of it, why else ? "
If only I patented it, I would be filthy rich now.
It was around the time when Myspace was starting to show signs of age, and Facebook was "just an alternative".
Well, both Facebook and Myspace have incorporated those features, rendering my would be "new and different" social network obsolete before it began.
My business model must've been leaked onto the interwebs.
On the other hand, the ConnectU people may (and I emphasize may) have a legitimate claim given that Zuckerberg did some programming for them.
If only I patented it, I would be filthy rich now.
i am agree with you .
It is obvious that I am the inventor of facebook and im happy not to take any court action, but I do want to be named the founder of facebook since I worked hard and I should be called the founder.
Andy
P.S - Im not sure what fkwit Aaron Greenspan thinks he is but a "founder" is typically associated to a company. You become a 'founder' when you actually found the company associated with the idea. Refer to Wikipedia for clarification 'An entrepreneur (a loanword from french introduced and first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon) is a person who undertakes and operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks.' - how the fk is Aaron Greenspan the founder ? Someone please enlighten me.
There were earlier facebooks, of course; Charles Baggage created designs for a mechanical Facebook device called Facebook Analytical Contrivance Entirely Built Out Of Cogs, or Facebooc. Had he been able to devise a device with a properly spelled acronym, who knows how the world might have changed as a result?
Facebook creation myths appear to predate written history, and some biologists suggest that the propensity for facebook creation results from a gene the creation of which predates the first appearance of mammals in the fossil record. Certain species of salamanders and koi have been known to enthrall viewers for hours with tales of their creation of amphibian facebook invention or other, fishy stories of the dawning of facebook.
Here's hoping to hear more tails of early facebooks.
Prior to me there were no faces, only blurry bits where you could see there should be something, but the details were left to me to figure out. Which I did, about the time I bought a pair of glasses.
Zuckerberg was the fool not to sell Facebook when he had the chance. Has NO ONE learned anything from Friendster?!?!
Of course each new comment was posted on the ass..I was going to use a face (facebook), but I opted for the ass (assbook).
http://www.facebook.com/p/Chris_Hambly/517858845
http://blogs.zoho.com/general/i-think-i-may-hav...
In the early 90's I used to trade live tapes of Phish and Blues Traveler over USENET before the Web even existed! We didn't pay any money for the music recordings, we just copied them and spread them along to others! Shawn Fanning was a total poser.
As for the wall, well, in my original idea you could write on my wall too, but in poo. hehe.
(Sorry to lower the tone - don't check out www.ratemypoo.com unless you have a strong constitution).
Because had Al not created the Internet then Aaron would have never invented FaceBook.
"I invented Facebook"
"No, I invented Facebook"
"I invented Facebook"
"I invented Facebook"
It was humiliating to sign friends yearbooks(especially the girls) and receive confused stares after they read my prose...that is until I came up with the idea to type(!) my comments onto their yearbooks... no wait, invent a program by which the yearbook and everyone's pictures (i.e., faces) would be on a computer. (DISCLOSURE: I didn't really get my IBM XT until '86.)
Of course, at this time, across the river at Harvard, there were a couple of geeks (before it was cool to be a geek) creating some kind of Window or something. Actually, that was my idea too. They stole it from me. They must have overheard me talking about it at the Harvard Coop one day. However, I called it "Doorway." Well, trying to launch two ideas simultaneously seemed like a lot of work, so I went to a kegger instead.
During the latter segment of 2003 a meeting took place between major education industry leaders to produce the first internet-based, inter-campus, international fraternity - "THEFraternity".com
The core of this revolutionary concept underlined the essence of FaceBook's goals and, not to mention, massive achievements.
Understandably the early bird catches the worm. In this instance the bird came so early that it overheard the worm's plans for the day, and got there first.
Y a los amigos de mi adolescencia.
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