NOTABLE?
Has anyone ever realized that the Wayback machine has archives for Facebook.com as far back as December 12, 1998? Those older archives are for a service called AboutFace. Seems like this AboutFace was a rudimentary version of social media or what they call a directory. Take a look
https://web.archive.org/web/19981212013921/http://facebook.com/
"Now Available!
aboutface.com, the world's first
Web-based electronic directory for
your organization. You can sign up
right here, right now, and you'll
even get a free 30-day trial!
Welcome to the Atlantic Media home page, headquarters of the AboutFace family of directory products. With aboutface.com you can easily set up a directory for your organization in your own private location right on this Web site. If you prefer, we also offer a traditional, Windows-based product, AboutFace/Windows version 3.9, which you can use on your LAN.
aboutface.com is a Web-based service that functions as a directory for your organization. aboutface.com maintains photographs and biographies of your employees and takes the place of your old-fashioned printed phone lists, address lists, facebooks, etc. aboutface.com is available for low monthly rates and resides in a secure, private location on our servers."