From Jester to YouTube: How Berkeley Projects Shaped the Modern Web
jfiance · x · 2026-09-27
A fun tech-history thread tracing how so much of today's technology has roots at UC Berkeley: the recommender system Jester (1998), Hot-or-Not (2000), then Facebook (2004) and YouTube (2005)—a lineage recalled in a conversation with professor Ken Goldberg.
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