Wirehog (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wirehog was a friend-to-friend file sharing program that was linked to Facebook and allowed people to transfer files directly between computers. It was created by Andrew McCollum, Mark Zuckerberg, Adam D'Angelo, and Sean Parker during their development of The Facebook social networking website in Palo Alto in the summer and fall of 2004. The only way to join Wirehog was through an invitation from a member and although it was originally planned as an integrated feature of Facebook, it could also be used by friends who weren't registered on Facebook. Wirehog was originally launched in October 2004 and was taken down in January 2006. Its target audience at the time was the same as the campus-only file-sharing service i2hub that launched earlier that year.