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'''CampusNetwork''' was an online community for Columbia students, and later other students, that was first launched in the summer of [[2003]]. | '''CampusNetwork''' was an online community for Columbia students, and later other students, that was first launched in the summer of [[2003]]. | ||
Revision as of 22:08, 5 September 2010
CampusNetwork was an online community for Columbia students, and later other students, that was first launched in the summer of 2003.
History
The site was founded by Adam Goldberg and Wayne Ting. It was initially called SEASCommunity but it was soon renamed to CUCommunity. In many respects CUCom was a far more advanced product than facebook, offering free photo and journal hosting long before the zuckerbook offered them. Ironically, a common complaint among early users who eventually migrated to facebook when it launched the next semester was that facebook was much "simpler", only offering a static profile page for users.
In September 2004, it relaunched as CampusNetwork, opening up access to students from many other universities as a competitor to the facebook hegemony. At its peak, 75% of the Columbia student body were registered members, and a total of 240,000 users at all the available universities, although a only a fraction were likely active users.
Characters
CUCommunity developed its own campus sub-culture, with celebrities including the infamous Angry Cell Phone Guy.
Many of the malcontents from CUCommunity (Feinstein, ttan, Reaganaut, Pacman, absentminded, among others) now spend their free time editing articles here at WikiCU.
Closing
The website eventually closed in February 2006, presumed overpowered by Facebook.
