Orkut

Orcutt and Allo.

O-R-K-U-T and A-L-L-O were failed attempts at social media from which tech giant?

Orcutt and Allo.

Orcutt.

O-R-K-U-T. Microsoft.

Microsoft.

Oh, no, those are Google attempts.

I was making money hand over fist doing web advertising and influencer stuff, and, um, Twitter before it was Twitter with all the vowels.

And then actual Twitter, and then, um, I had Orkut and some other social medias before these social medias that are out there now.

And then in 2011, I sold The Droid...

I changed it, the site from the blogs, thedroidguy.blogspot.com in 2007.

I always give example from when I was 14 year old.

And I remember that at that time there was Orkut was like, you know, pre-Facebook and everybody's profile was public.

I don't know what happened, but somehow my profile went viral.

And I just had lots and lots of abusive messages from older men publicly on my profile.

And I got very scared.

And I emailed Orkut and said, can you please delete my profile? At that time, you could not delete your profile on Orkut.

I don't know why.

There was no button or I couldn't find it.

Yeah, pretty good.

Yeah, again, fully embracing AI agentic development, both in Orkut and just personally.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Where's that one from? It's

from Orkut in Norway.

It's extremely, has a similar types of inlays.

I'm so sorry.

But it's exact.

There are things in Norway and Denmark and England that are very reminiscent of this style.

Is that Orkut with the A and the O? I'll find a picture of it.

But yeah, this is from the first half of the 7th century is usually when it's dated.

Inside a flat in the posh Lokhandwala complex, a 16-year-old boy named Adnan Patrala is sitting at his computer.

If you're old enough to remember the internet before it was all algorithm-based, you would perhaps remember Orkut.

And that's the platform that he's on.

For the Gen Z listeners, think of Orkut as a digital time capsule, like a diary almost, where you write your thoughts, where you post things.

No reels, no DMs, no stories, but really just a way to connect with your friends, long lost friends, or interact with them while they're in different places.

Like a scrapbook.

Aslam Patrala vowed to fight the high court, pushing for the gallows.

But 14 years later, the appeal remains quiet, lost in the complexities of the judicial system.