It's Time To Say Goodbye To Orkut, Google's First Social Network

Though Orkut proved popular in Brazil and India, it failed to gain traction in the rest of the world.

Before there was a Facebook, or Twitter, or Pinterest, or Ello, there was Orkut, a beloved social network a Google engineer built a decade ago. Though it was widely adopted in Brazil and India, Orkut was never very popular in the rest of the world, which is why Google is shutting down the social networking platform on Tuesday.

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