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In another post on his blog he "proves" he "invented" Facebook with this link:

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2009/05/facebook-and-think-comp...

>Starting in August 2003, Think released a web based student portal called houseSYSTEM through a Harvard student group. This software was designed to make life easier for students, faculty, and alumni. By September 2003, houseSYSTEM featured a section (devised and implemented by Greenspan) called “The Universal Face Book” (sometimes called “The Face Book”).

Which is an odd claim because I was under the impression that "face books" weren't an original concept.



It's not an original concept, it originated in print, and inspired the name[0]. So basically, he's claiming that he contributed to a web portal that included the _name_ "Face Book", hence he invented Facebook.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book




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