Bebo

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Bebo
Bebo logo
Bebo 2.0
Bebo 2.0
URL http://bebo.com/
Status Online!
Archiving status 1.0: Lost
1.5: Not saved yet
2.0: Not saved yet
Archiving type Unknown
Project source https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/bebo-grab
Project tracker http://tracker.archiveteam.org/bebo/
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)
(formerly #cockandballs (on EFnet))
Data[how to use] archiveteam_bebo

Bebo was a popular social network founded by Michael and Xochi Birch back in 2005. The platform celebrated its people, their friends, and creativity.

Here’s a short history on the company:

  • 2005 - Bebo, an early social network was founded by husband-and-wife team Michael and Xochi Birch in January 2005 at their home in San Francisco.
  • 2005 (9 days after launching) - Bebo hits 1 Million Users.
  • 2005 - After numerous questions about why the name is Bebo, Michael makes up an answer (Blog Early Blog Often). Real answer? Bebo was short, snappy, and utterly nonsensical.
  • 2006 & 2007 - We built Bebo mobile, groups and the infamous whiteboard amongst other features.
  • 2008 - Sold to AOL.
  • 2010 - Sold to Criterion Capital.
  • Today - Bought back by the original Founders.
  • Tomorrow - We start re-inventing Bebo.

Bebo 2.0

Archive Site Structure (Bebo 1.5)

Micahel Birch's Profile

A sampling of 1000 random IDs between 1 and 11100000000 revealed 0% of profile IDs are valid with a margin of error of 3%. This test appears to be correct as Wikipedia states there are ~11 million registered accounts which means 0% of profile IDs are valid.

How can I help?

The project can be run in the Warrior VM.

The scripts also can be run manually. Instructions are located at github.com/ArchiveTeam/bebo-grab.

Archives

A project began to save some profiles but it was stopped because they kept banning us from brute-forcing all the profiles. But what was saved was uploaded to archive.org however: archiveteam_bebo

See Also