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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by flashman on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:27PM (#13477602)
> It's so hard to believe that's only from 2004.

It's surprising Holt could still get away with writing "Cornell girls are hideous" as late as 2004!

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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by lmm on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:03AM (#13480400)
I think 2004-me would see a future in which it was politically impossible to write that kind of thing as a horrible dystopia.
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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by Vinnl on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:48AM (#13480337)
It's surprising he got away with the term "webmasters".
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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by zapu on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:18AM (#13480791)
I assumed there is some sort of rivalry between Stanford and Cornell - I'm not in US so I wouldn't know. But you would not see this kind of statement in a paper nowadays, that's for sure.
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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by wiredfool on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:51AM (#13480967)
Cornell had of a rivalry with Harvard (who can't play hockey).

Stanford really wasn't a concern, they're on the other coast. Though, this was from afew years after my time.

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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by coldtea on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:31AM (#13480859)
One could as well write it today. Assuming it's a free country and they do find them hideous or doing it for joking purposes (as the author does).
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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by NautilusWave on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:47PM (#13478295)
That was as far as I got into the article....
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