{"id":11067,"date":"2012-05-08T13:48:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T18:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=11067"},"modified":"2012-05-10T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T16:42:13","slug":"abraham-lincoln-tried-to-patent-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/internet-2\/social-media\/abraham-lincoln-tried-to-patent-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED AND CORRECTED: Abraham Lincoln Tried To Patent Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"
UPDATE: No. No, he did not. Oops. <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n …<\/p>\n Original story:<\/p>\n Abraham Lincoln. The Great Emancipator. The sixteenth president of the United States of America. Creator of Facebook and social media. Creator of Facebook? And you thought Mark Zuckerberg had to worry about the Winklevoss twins coming after him, try the guy who won the Civil War and who is a world-renowned vampire hunter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Honest Abe may have lived in a completely analogue, pre-digital era, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t a forward thinker with an eye on self-promotion. While visiting the Lincoln Museum<\/a> in Springfield, IL, social media consultant Nate St. Pierre found a copy of the Springfield Gazette<\/a>, a fake publication created by Lincoln, that was all about Lincoln, with a very familiar layout.<\/p>\n