Congrats, Shoop!
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When I first discovered Rita's in the spring of 96 as I was walking through a working class Ardmore neighborhood, I said to myself I says "Jesus Christ this stuff is great. Why isn't it everywhere?" I had never heard of it before I came to the CoP for college. I used to go there as a senior and buy those bug gallon size jugs and store them in my freezer. 20 years later, my vision has been realized.
Winter of 2001. I'm sitting at my job bored out of my mind, surfing the web all day. Pre-Google days. Every site I go to, a Classmates.com popup appears. So I go there thinking it would be cool to see pics of people I went to HS with, what they're doing, etc. Then I realize you can't do anything besides register your name without paying a monthly fee. I would tell anyone who would listen that Classmates was the stupidest thing ever. They should just make it free and let everyone upload pics and let everyone from that same school view them. 3 years later that prick at Harvard creates FB. I had it first. I didn't have the idea of the newsfeed, but neither did Gobelstein or whatever his name is.
Winter of 2001. I'm sitting at my job bored out of my mind, surfing the web all day. Pre-Google days. Every site I go to, a Classmates.com popup appears. So I go there thinking it would be cool to see pics of people I went to HS with, what they're doing, etc. Then I realize you can't do anything besides register your name without paying a monthly fee. I would tell anyone who would listen that Classmates was the stupidest thing ever. They should just make it free and let everyone upload pics and let everyone from that same school view them. 3 years later that prick at Harvard creates FB. I had it first. I didn't have the idea of the newsfeed, but neither did Gobelstein or whatever his name is.
So Shoop is claiming he thought of franchising Rita's water ice first and oh yeah, invented Facebook in his head. Gr8 story. What a cheek.
And what does pre-Google days mean? Pretty sure it was around in 2001. And if it wasn't, there were other search engines at the time that did the same thing. Your story is a false narrative.
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Shoop tells us about the time back in the pre smartphone days when you had a tough time flagging down a cab in Center City and had visions of Uber before it existed.
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I'll never forget the day in 1984 when I was writing my 10th letter of the day to a friend and thought "wouldn't it be great to type this on a machine and then just hit some sort of send button and that person could see it instantly". And then 10 years later (insert hacky Jew name of inventor here) came up with the idea first.
The grounds are our thing is cool and popular and HarvardConnection is lame! Wardo, I didn't use any of their code, I promise. I didn't use anything! Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.
I had an idea for a motorized way to transport people 20 years before that prick Henry Ford and his Tin Lizzie came along
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