Sunday 19 October 2014

Meet the Guys Who Started Stanford’s Facebook in 1999

In 1999, Lawrence Gentilello and Tuyen Truong started something based on Stanford University"s facebook called, "The Facebook" online. They scanned in more than 7,000 student pictures to a database online which they cross-referenced with each student"s personal information: address, phone number and email. What happened next sounds all too familiar: Stanford University shut it down.
Meet the Guys Who Started Stanford’s Facebook in 1999

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