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Originally Posted by Jazuela
The "likes" predate Facebook by around 5 years. They've been a part of the internet forum world since at least 2000, when phpBB was released (what this forum, which uses a stable version of vBulletin, is coded with). Upvotes were introduced back in the days of Bulletin Boards and Usenet, in the 1990's.
Facebook didn't exist until 2004.
You can thank THIS forum's code for the "likes" on Facebook.
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Very true. In fact I ran one of first 5 CBBS's (Google Forum-80 software) in the US back in the early 80's on a TRS-80 with 4K of memory running under TRS basic on a 5.25" single sided floppy with a 300 baud modem and a phone line which eventually became 5 1200 (edit: make that then 2400 then 9600) baud modems on 5 phone lines on an "IBM-PC" (Google TBBS Software) . Was also a mod on 2 Compuserve forums so I am quite aware of it. I also run a private forum using vBulletin Cloud but as I am sure you know LIKES meant nothing until Facebook when they were counted in the millions instead of on 1 or 2 hands. Now they can make or break a business or a show business personality. Apples and Oranges. But yes, upvotes and the like have been around for years. Hated them then and still hate them now.