Friends Reunited…reunited: Britain’s ‘Facebook precursor’ is back with the original founders

The Web is a different beast in 2014 to what it was 10 years ago. Facebook was a glorified Harvard intranet, twitter was a noise birds made, and YouTube was two non-capitalized words completely unrelated to cats falling off things. Long before Bebo overtook Myspace to become the country’s number one social network, Friends Reunited had been steadily snowballing its way to the upper regions of Britain’s Web charts, letting you meet former school/work buddies. The site was similar to the USA’s Classmates.com, but aimed primarily at the UK and Ireland. Friends Reunited was conceived by husband and wife team...



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