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mac01021 on Aug 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from o...

How would they have earned those billions of dollars?

nl on Aug 4, 2017 | [–]

Same way FB does now.

The idea of FB status updates (and Twitter) literally came from the status line you could set in AIM.

empath75 on Aug 4, 2017 | [–]

The same way Facebook did. All they had to do was persist away messages and they had a social network.

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