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The Social Network Stealer
[S4E2] The Zuck stops with us
Tanus Maximus
April 03, 2025
Zuckerberg: speeding back through time itself
Season 4, Episode 2: The Social Network Stealer [2003 CE]
Journalist and writer Chris Dillon joins us in the recent past to reshape tech history! The year is 2003, and a young Mark Zuckerberg is skulking the corridors of Harvard, his mind deep into plans to create TheFacebook.
Will our tallest guest ever succeed in his mission to derail Mark Zuckerberg's social media empire, or will Harvard's surprisingly zealous campus security get in the way? And is 2024 Mark Zuckerberg back lurking on campus in 2003?
Chris discovers that changing the course of tech history is harder than expected.
Despite using our new so-called "Goldilocks" prompt (not too hard, not too easy), GameMaster Claude is surprisingly strict. Sometimes the greatest victories come at a personal cost...
Dillon and The Zuck: an intimate relationship
If Zuckerberg travels back to 2003 from 2024…
One hypothesis for the extra tight security in this episode is that 2024 Mark Zuckerberg has invented time travel and has journeyed back to Harvard in 2003 to protect his younger self from being sabotaged by time travelling fraudsters (like our player Chris Dillon).
It’s reminiscent of low budget cult time travel movie in which two US grads discover a way to go back in time and thereby create duplicates of themselves.
The diagram below allegedly shows the Primer guys’ route back through time. Perhaps Zuckerberg is up to something similarly complicated.
Time travel ‘explainer’ for Primer