{"id":433,"date":"2007-09-05T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T07:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cornwallseo.com\/search\/index.php\/2007\/09\/05\/not-many-people-know-this-but-i-invented-facebook\/"},"modified":"2016-11-11T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T10:46:46","slug":"not-many-people-know-this-but-i-invented-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cornwallseo.com\/search\/not-many-people-know-this-but-i-invented-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Not many people know this, but I invented Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK not me exactly, it was actually one of my ancestors, Rupert Antcliff III. In the 18th century he invented a way for people to write on other peoples walls. Sure, it was before the Internet, but the concept was his intellectual property.<\/p>\n<p>By rights, the Facebook squillions should be mine, but as I&#8217;m a nice guy I wont get the lawyers involved and can be bought off with an all expences paid, weekend trip to Vegas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>More and more people are crawling out of the woodwork to claim <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2007\/09\/01\/i-invented-facebook\">they invented facebook<\/a>  The new guy being Aaron Greenspan (no relation), also making claims, Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, Peter Cashmore, Sridhar Vembu and Zoli Erdos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muhammadsaleem.com\/2007\/09\/04\/i-invented-facebook-too-how-about-you\/\">Muhammad Saleem<\/a> is running a meme on all peoples of the Earth who are making a claim on Facebook. Surely you have a claim too, blog about it and link back to all the other claiments.<\/p>\n<p>Let us all rise up and shout, &#8220;I INVENTED FACEBOOK.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK not me exactly, it was actually one of my ancestors, Rupert Antcliff III. In the 18th century he invented a way for people to write on other peoples walls. Sure, it was before the Internet, but the concept was his intellectual property. 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