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[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Well he definitely is now.

I think he created it, and once it got a certain size he got approached by people who offered to make him a billionaire.

That's how these projects usually go, they don't start them from scratch. They just co-opt the people who are on the obvious rise.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's much more than that. Facebook launched right after DARPA closed a project that it was working on, which was almost identical to Facebook.

The Weird DARPA/Facebook “Coincidence” You Never Heard About

[–]HeyImSancho 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I concur, the very fact that every media outlet anywhere was promoting social media, social media, social media, social media, and then facebook, facebook, facebook.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You should definitely listen to the video is you haven't. It's beyond any coincidence.