Your First Online Neighbourhood

Brazil · 2007 A profile could feel like a place your friends dropped by. On Orkut, a scrap was a message left for someone; in January 2007, Google announced an SMS feature for members in Brazil using Claro, taking that exchange beyond the computer. This imagined screen suggests an early social page without reproducing anyone’s profile or the exact interface. Think of the people, not the password: whose message made you log in again? AI-created imagined scene; not an archival photograph or a record of real people. Sources: Google — SMS on orkut, January 2007 — https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/sms-on-orkut.html Google Brasil — Orkut in Brazil, July 2009 — https://brasil.googleblog.com/2009/07/pulsacao-do-orkut-no-brasil.html