Wirehog

When the site launched at a new school, he added, "you'd have this incredible initial bump of people who had heard about it and seen clippings or articles about it, and were excited to jump on board." short-lived file-sharing side project called Wirehog, Facebook's team kept the site a purely networking-focused tool at the start.

CNET News.com 2009

With the exception of a short lived file sharing side project called Wirehog, Facebook's team kept the site a purely networking focused tool at the start.

Muti 2009

With the exception of a short-lived file-sharing side project called Wirehog, Facebook's team kept the site a purely networking-focused tool at the start.

Crave at CNET UK 2009

"I think Wirehog will probably spread in the same way that thefacebook did."

'The Facebook literally took me a week to make': Looking at the early days of the social network Eric Athas 2011

Oct. 20, 2004 -- As Facebook passed the 500,000-member mark, Zuckerberg rolled out a new project called Wirehog.

'The Facebook literally took me a week to make': Looking at the early days of the social network Eric Athas 2011

"The program, named Wirehog, allows digital 'friends' to connect to each other's computers and download files, from documents to music to movies."

'The Facebook literally took me a week to make': Looking at the early days of the social network Eric Athas 2011

To Parker it seemed likely that such companies would accuse Wirehog—and with it Thefacebook—of helping users steal content, just as the music industry had with Napster.

The Facebook Effect David Kirkpatrick 2010

One area where Parker and Zuckerberg clashed was over Wirehog, on which development continued.

The Facebook Effect David Kirkpatrick 2010

Over the protestations of Parker and Moskovitz, Wirehog launched in November 2004 as an invitation-only site at a few colleges.

The Facebook Effect David Kirkpatrick 2010

A page on Thefacebook explained: Wirehog is a social application that lets friends exchange files of any type with each other over the web.

The Facebook Effect David Kirkpatrick 2010