06-22-2011, 09:13 PM
SteveO wrote:
I had bookmarked a page on Skype use several years ago and ran across it today. Reading the page, I found this very interesting if not amusing. Snipped the first graf, boldfaced the line of interest:
[quote=lepontec]
...So I went to www.facebook.com (it's a way to find people in college)...
It would be fun to see other prescient posts like this one re-posted whenever any of us runs across them.
On a sort-of related note, I met Taner Halicioglu (facebook employee #1) this past weekend (he's also a UCSD alum, and was at the UCSD 50th anniversary gala as an honored guest). He said that when he arrived there in 2004, facebook had a total of 15 servers. Five years later, he had overseen the architecture growth to ~40,000 servers. He's quite the gaming geek - I checked out from the conversation when he and one of my former classmates started to get deep into a Warcraft/Starcraft discussion...apparently, as a Blizzard employee now, one of the job requirements is to put in so many hours each week playing their products.