Facemash, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Facemash comes up
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- ▶ 32:04 Ben Gilbert People talk about, oh, there's the one Facemash thing that he did that led to Facebook.
- ▶ 32:38 Ben Gilbert There were 10 things that he had worked on even before Facemash.
- ▶ 34:10 David Rosenthal And this is Facemash, well chronicled in all the many books, stories.
- ▶ 36:33 David Rosenthal Yes, called Facemash.
- ▶ 36:35 David Rosenthal Now, a couple interesting things about Facemash.
- ▶ 36:37 David Rosenthal One, gosh, if Mark was blown away by the engagement of the Harvard population with CourseMatch, Facemash takes that to such a whole nother level that it actually melts down the servers in Kirkland House, and the IT department at Harvard…
- ▶ 37:18 David Rosenthal So, the other interesting thing from Mark's perspective about Facemash is that it was the first time he was building
- ▶ 40:30 Ben Gilbert Everyone on campus knew about Facemash.
- ▶ 49:55 David Rosenthal Coupled with super important learning number two from Facemash, it's all user-submitted content.
- ▶ 56:50 David Rosenthal It's face mash all over again, except a good problem, not a bad problem.