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Aaron Greenspan went to Harvard at the same time as Zuckerberg, wrote a campus email system that evolved to included favourite quotes, interests, birthday reminders, events, and many other familiar features. He called his system "the universal Facebook" , or "the facebook" for short. Days after meeting Mark over dinner, Zuckerberg registered "thefacebook.com" and the rest is history... well, until Facebook settled with him over a "trademark dispute" acknowledging his prior work .
He was somehow not a character in The Social Network, but his story is central to the origin of Facebook, and he has some interesting things to say about Mark!