In the mid-2000s, Google engineer Orkut Büyükkökten’s self-titled social network briefly took the world by storm before disappearing. Now he’s back, with a plan for a happier social media.

Orkut was the OG social media and shall remain the best for millenials like us — GOAT (@Notthe_Goat) November 18, 2022. So, have you ever used Orkut?

If you remember Orkut, Google's first foray into social networking, good news: the site is still around. The bad news is that it's about to die. Orkut will go gentle into that good night on ...

In 2004, fresh off a failed attempt to buy hotshot-of-the-day Friendster, Google launched Orkut. The fledgling site was Google's first foray into a social network in the days before anyone knew ...

Orkut's introduction came amid a mini boomlet of similar sites, which now number in the dozens, including Friendster, Tribe.net and MySpace. Advertisement. Article continues below this ad.

“Orkut buit his eponymous service entirely on his own. It was a prototype to gather data, to try things out, to experiment. He wrote the code, designed the user interface, ...

In 2004, Orkut Büyükkökten and Githin Jose founded the social network Orkut as part of an independent project within Google. After a decade, it was shuttered with a community of more than 300 ...

Launched in 2004, Orkut had more than 30 million Brazilian users at its peak in 2011 — almost half the country's population with access to the Internet at the time, according to research firm Ibope.

A computer worm has been spreading on Google's big-in-Brazil Orkut social network, according to a report on the Sounds from the Dungeon blog. The relatively harmless worm appears to use JavaScript ...

Google’s social networking service, Orkut has opened it’s doors to the general public. Previously Orkut was an invite-only service. If you already have a Google Account you can now login to ...