Long before Facebook… Long before Twitter… there was it. The social network you left O Brazilian addicted to social networks. O orkut! Created in January 2004 by a Google engineer, O Turkish orkut Büyükkökten, O site would only accept a new user if he was invited by a member. This even generated sales of invitations on the internet!
competing with O Facebook, it never “caught” in the US, but it really took off in Brazil, to the point of gaining a national version in April 2005, surpassing 30 million subscribers and starting to be managed by the national subsidiary of Google. Possibly, O face dethroned O orkut and it closed on September 30, 2014. But it will forever be in the memory of those who lived through its heyday.
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ATTRIBUTES
Visitors to your page could secretly vote if you it was sexy (represented by a heart), reliable (a happy face) and Cool (an ice cube). It was proud to have the heart bar at 100% on the meter! Also it was It is possible to declare yourself a “fan” of someone – a little star. In that case, O vote it was public.
RECENT VIEWS
In 2006, O site took everyone by surprise when it started recording all the users who had visited each profile in the last 24 hours. Perfect for anyone who wanted stalk potential crushes! The tool, which could be deactivated, also gave O total visits for the week, month and year.
APPS
Some add-ons that turned O orkut in jest they bombed. O most famous game was O Happy harvest, a farm simulator where you grew vegetables, took care of animals and could help or hinder your friends. Already O buddy poke allowed you to create an avatar with your style, which interacted with O avatar of others.
PHOTOS
At first, O orkut it was so limited that each person could only have a dozen photos! And then everyone spent a lot of time trying to define the 12 ideal portraits to leave O “perfect” profile. Good thing, with O time, this limit disappeared – and it was possible to create albums. O adhesion term prohibited the publication of photos of celebrities, pornography or cartoons. But nobody respected.
SCRAPS
These messages were the easiest way to communicate with friends. But they could give you a lot of headaches: as not the page it was blocked, even a stranger could pollute your timeline with a silly line (written in colorful letters!), an unusual photo or a very cheesy gif of kittens with glitter.
DEPOSITIONS
It was a “premium” version of scraps. Almost always, a long declaration of love or friendship. As O “textão” only it was published if O owner of the profile approved, it was used a lot as a primitive “inbox” system – with the infamous suggestion “reads but does not accept” (the text only became public if the person clicked on “accept”)
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FRIEND’S LIST
It only allowed a thousand people, divided into “I don’t know”, “I know”, “friend”, “good friend” and “best friend”. But there was another more interesting classification: the Crush List. If you added a user and he did too O to include in his list, O orkut sent a message to both of them. Exactly: it was a Tinder great-grandfather!
COMMUNITIES
He was O big cheap orkut. should serve as forums, but O Brazilian, always a joker, created several just for the joke, as “Imagine if you get caught in the eye”, “I’m afraid of the old lady (O) Quaker!” and “I’m cool, I’m not giving you a hard time”. This helped the social network reach the mark of 51 million communities, with 120 million topics and over 1 billion interactions. in them, it was It is possible to create events, polls and debates. The biggest was “I hate waking up early”, which reached 6 million members and was sold by its creator.