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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: The Social Network Stealer
Description: Harvard University, 2003. A lanky guy in a grey hoodie is skulking the corridors of Kirkland House with plans to build something called TheFacebook. Chris Dillon has been sent back to beat him to it. His cover identity is "Thomas Jefferson," at a 21st-century Ivy League university. His understanding of coding? "It's like MySpace but better."
Chris's approach to tech entrepreneurship involves physical confrontation, identity theft, and the kind of confidence that gets you escorted off campus by Harvard police. Game Master Claude sets up a "Goldilocks prompt" difficulty — not too hard, not too easy — and Chris immediately test...