Move over Zuck, Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for Facebook in 1845
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Re: Move over Zuck, Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for Facebook in 1845
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#3The really interesting question (which no doubt some people will think is easily answered as "no one") is, who invented this even earlier than Lincoln?
To reuse Thomas Mann's metaphor, history is like a set of coulisses, walls sliding away to reveal something else behind. Every time you think you've found the bottom of the well, something slides out and reveals another bottomless chasm further on. So it is with ideas.
Re: Move over Zuck, Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for Facebook in 1845
#4blogspam - original article:
http://natestpierre.me/2012/05/08/abraham-lincoln-patent-fac...
Re: Move over Zuck, Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for Facebook in 1845
#5Links back to a blog post wherein P.T.Barnum and his "there's a sucker born every minute" line is discussed, but no hint of the number or other identification/content for the alleged patent application[1] is. Intriguing, but dubious.
[1] - ETA.
Re: Move over Zuck, Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for Facebook in 1845
#6blogspam - original article: http://natestpierre.me/2012/05/08/abraham-lincoln-patent-fac...
Apologies, the original site was having some difficulties which is why I submitted a link to the blog post instead.
Re: Move over Zuck, Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for Facebook in 1845
#7He probably wanted people to know about the Vampire Scourge and his efforts to eradicate vampires.
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#9Does this mean the Winklevoss twins will sue the Lincoln estate as well?
Re: Move over Zuck, Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for Facebook in 1845
#10I don't believe this, not for a second.
Too much fluff writing and not enough specifics, details or high res images of the "Springfield Gazette" along with lack of links to the patent application and so on.
Too many red flags. Lincoln is one of the most studied men in history. Everything in Lincoln's life has been pored over meticulously and thousands of books have been written about his life.
If this story were true, you'd have heard of it before. Remember, just finding a signature of his is worth thousands. The Smithsonian would have published this story a long time ago if there were any truth to it.
Seems like it's just an experiment in fiction by a blogger who fancies himself a writer.