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Re:Threads Software Limited gives Meta 30 days to stop using... by WorldMaker on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:54PM (#38073075)
The company was founded on it. It was "thefacebook.com" for years as it fought to get the domain name without "the". (Also, there were lots of face books at the time. Claiming "The" was a wild hair that also seemed to win PR for them.)
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Re:Threads Software Limited gives Meta 30 days to stop using... by paulddraper on Monday October 30, 2023 @02:14PM (#38073396)
> Also, there were lots of face books at the time.

Trademark-wise, "Facebook" and "Book of Faces" are different things.

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Re:Threads Software Limited gives Meta 30 days to stop using... by riffic on Monday October 30, 2023 @02:25PM (#38073560)
the term predates the company

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/facebook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book

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