First guy on the Ottawa Network.
by matt roberts
Its fun reading the paper in the morning and discovering new things. Today, I discovered who was (possibly) the first member of Facebook in the Ottawa Network. My friend Aydin Mirzaee the CEO over at bOK. According to the Ottawa Citizen article:
Mr. Mirzaee, the CEO of bOKnow.com, an Ottawa startup that offers unlimited cellphone calls to clients, said he believes he’s the first person to join an Ottawa-area network because other universities in the area didn’t have any networks at that time, he said.McGill had a network, he said, likely due to its high American student population.Facebook yesterday declined to provide user numbers for Ottawa and did not say whether Mr. Mirzaee was the first Ottawa user.
lol… thanks Matt
Aydin.
I’m betting the first guy on Facebook from Ottawa was a friend of mine called Sean Karamchandani. Sean graduated from Nepean’s Bell High School and went to Harvard a year before Mark Z, who later became dorm buddies. Harvard students were offered first crack at what we now know as Facebook.
Might be – in this case I think they’re referring to the first person to join the Ottawa Network. But who really knows Facebook isn’t saying.