Friendster launched in March 2002 and went through different iterations within the same decade. A group of internet archeologists reported on in Wired, published a paper which analyzed Friendster ...

THE Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) warned Filipinos against the sudden resurgence online of the social media "new Friendster" as it is being used for phishing. In a ...

When software engineer Jonathan Abrams arrived in Silicon Valley in 1996, the internet was known for three things: vast amounts of information, pornography, and anonymity.

If Facebook had the “like” feature, Friendster had its “testi,” which simply overflowed of good vibes. With it, the lifelong bonds of virtual friendship are forever forged. You can demand a sterling ...

Friendster was tattooed in the cultural memory as an Internet failure. Abrams, its inventor and CEO, became the natural personification of that. Fairly or unfairly, Abrams was judged a failure, too.

Considered by many to be the grandfather of all social networking sites, Friendster used to be the hottest place on the web. It was founded by Canadian programmer Jonathan Abrams in 2002 and was ...

For Wired's 20th anniversary issue, we remember Friendster. At its zenith in 2003, Friendster was the first site to truly grasp the addictive nature of virtual connections with real-life associates.

Just before Friendster relaunched itself as a gaming site in 2011, the Internet Archive crawled the dead network, grabbing a snapshot.Garcia and his fellow researchers used that snapshot of that ...

Friendster is a social network that was founded in 2002, a year before Myspace and two years before Facebook. Consequently, it is often thought of as the grand-daddy of social networks. At its ...