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TIL Aaron Greenspan, a tech wizard who shared the same dorm with Mark Zuckerberg, built a Facebook-y site long before Facebook was built, but was (allegedly) given no credit when he claims (with documented proof) that Zuckerberg took inspiration from and copied off his product to build Facebook.

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