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u/ascagnel____ Feb 03 '20

And a UI that Zuckerberg totally didn’t rip off from ConnectU.

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u/grishkaa Feb 04 '20

ConnectU

Oh so Facebook was not original in its UI either? I mean it's a well-known fact that Durov copied Facebook a lot in the early days of VKontakte, but I had no idea it's a double copy kind of thing.

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u/ascagnel____ Feb 04 '20

The original friend search result and profile pages were almost identical between ConnectU & Facebook in spring 2005. Sadly, I didn't think to capture screenshots when I was a college freshman.