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A guy bought Friendster for $30K and is rebuilding it to be more social, less network
April 27, 2026
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Friendster, the proto-social network that beat MySpace and Facebook to market in 2002 and then stopped operating in 2018, has a new owner with a strange plan for it. Mike Carson paid roughly 30,000 for the domain. The deal was 20,000 in Bitcoin plus another domain that throws off about 9,000 a year in ad revenue. — Read the rest The post A guy bought Friendster for 30K and is rebuilding it to be more social, less network appeared first on Boing Boing.
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