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2004·Early web, before YouTube

Orkut

The social network two of the world's largest countries actually used, and the English-speaking web forgot.

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What this was

Google launched Orkut quietly on 22 January 2004, a side project by one engineer. It never took in America and became the dominant social network of Brazil and India — by 2014 Brazilians were 55 per cent of its users and Indians another 18. Google closed it on 30 September 2014. A generation's first internet was a site most Western histories do not mention.

It first appeared in 2004, during early web, before YouTube.

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Where it came from

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Google launched Orkut quietly on 22 January 2004, a side project by one engineer. It never took in America and became the dominant social network of Brazil and India — by 2014 Brazilians were 55 per cent of its users and Indians another 18. Google closed it on 30 September 2014. A generation's first internet was a site most Western histories do not mention.
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