Facebook Started as Facemash

It's incredible that Facebook, now set for an IPO and potential market capitalization of $100 billion, all started with Zuckerberg stealing photos of girls at Harvard to start a little copy cat site called Facemash. This Mark Zuckerberg quote was left out of the IPO filing for some reason: "To think this all started with rating bitches on Facemash." This from Wikipedia, "Facemash used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person. To accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into the protected areas of

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