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ConnectU (originally HarvardConnection) was a social networking website launched on May 21, 2004, [1] that was founded by Harvard students Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra in December 2002. [2] Users could add people as friends, send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. [3]
The three conceived of a social network for Harvard students named HarvardConnection; the concept ultimately expanded to other schools around the country. What made ConnectU different from other social media platforms was the need to have a specific domain that matched the 'club' you were getting into, like harvard.edu.
ConnectU (originally Harvard Connection) was a social networking website launched on May 21, 2004, [7] that was founded by Harvard students Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Narendra in December 2002. [8] Users could add people as friends, send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.
Oct. 28, 2003: Zuckerberg hacks into Harvard's "facebook" pages to obtain photos for Facemash, a proto-Facebook (a "hot or not" picture-rating site for Harvard students). The site goes live in the ...
Tyler Winklevoss was born in Southampton, New York, and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. [1] He is the son of Carol (née Leonard) and Howard Winklevoss, [2] [3] who started an asset management company overseeing hundreds of millions of dollars, and is an author [4] and professor of actuarial science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Harvard students Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra accused Zuckerberg of intentionally making them believe he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com (later called ConnectU). [21] They filed a lawsuit in 2004; it was dismissed on a technicality on March 28, 2007.
Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss, and Tyler Winklevoss, founders of the social network ConnectU, filed a lawsuit against Facebook in September 2004.The lawsuit alleged that Zuckerberg had broken an oral contract to build the social-networking site, copied the idea, [1] [2] and used source code that they provided to Zuckerberg to create competing site Facebook.
Settlement was reached where Facebook acquired ConnectU for 1,253,326 shares of Facebook stock and an additional $20 million in cash. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] On August 26, 2010, The New York Times reported that Facebook shares were trading at $76 per share in the secondary market, putting the total settlement value at close to $120 million.