Analysis of Significant Computing Technologies

Facemash

Facemash was a "Hot or Not" website that Zuckerberg made to rate the "hotness" of girls who went to Harvard, using an ELO system. The site compared images of girls scraped from house facebooks and eventually crashed Harvard's servers due to its popularity.

HarvardConnection

HarvardConnection, now ConnectU, was a social networking website created by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra. The site was meant to be what Facebook is today but for only Harvard students.

Facebook

Originally "The Facebook" created by Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin. A social networking website that allows people to connect with friends and family by sharing photos and videos.

LiveJournal

LiveJournal is a blogging website created in March 1999 by American computer scientist, Brad Fitzpatrick. When Mark Zuckerberg was creating Facemash, he was simultaneously blogged on the website, discussing the reasoning of the program.

All Computing Technology Identified

8:00 – Sony VAIO PCG-TR3A (source) - a laptop computer used by Zuckerberg
8:00 – LiveJournal - A blogging website used by Zuckerberg to post his ideas on the internet
10:30 – Apache - A web server software that hosts the house facebooks
11:53 – GNU Emacs - Text editor Zuckerberg uses to create scraping scripts
11:54 – Perl - language in which Zuckerberg scripts to scrape house facebooks
12:36 – Facemash - website used to compare the hotness of female Harvard undergraduates with an ELO rating system
13:29 – Email - communication medium to distribute the facemash website
14:31 – Windows XP - operating system found on computer systems
14:40 – Video game on CRT TV - entertainment for college students
14:40 – CRT Television - display technology, used to watch television or in the movie portrayal, play videogames
14:52 – Apple Powerbook (not a Macbook!) - Example of Apple hardware in the movie
14:55 – Samsung Syncmaster 941BW (monitor) - display technology used for desktop computers
15:17 – Landline Telephone - communication medium found in urban houses
16:22 – Stenography - Hardware keyboard and documentation technique used for court proceedings or similar
16:34 – Handheld Calculator - device to calculate basic math or financial calculations
16:38 – Video Camera (Camcorder?) - device used to document court proceedings
20:44 – Powerpoint Presentation / Slideshow - visual medium used to educate college students
22:34 – CourseMatch - allows students to see what courses their friends are registered in
22:54 – Synapse Media Player - An MP3 player app Zuckerburg created the recognizes your taste of music using artificial intelligence
23:11 – HarvardConnection - Technology created by the Winklevoss twins, a social networking site
23:19 – MySpace - a social networking platform
23:19 – Friendster - a social networking platform
29:09 – Facebook - Zuckerberg's social networking platform
30:54 – NOKIA, texting - Cellular devices and early texting for communications
31:40 – Linux Box - slang for a server
31:41 – MySQL - database system
33:38 – Network Solutions - domain name registrar (Zuckerberg purchases the facebook domain from this service)
34:32 – Match.com - Dating website
44:46 – BASIC - programming language
58:17 – Napster - P2P file-sharing service commonly associated with piracy
1:04:52 – Printer - A device that puts digital vector or raster images onto paper using ink
1:16:44 – Python - programming language
1:16:45 – SSL Encryption - technology that allows for secure communication over the internet
1:16:50 – Pix Firewall - Physical hardware computing device that prevents unauthorized network access by filtering connections

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