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by justinsaccount 2730 days ago
Really? It's literally a generic term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book
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Yeah, when I was a college freshman in the 1970s, I got a printed directory of my classmates' names and photos which was informally called the "Face Book". By that time, it was already an old tradition.