They missed the brilliant viral marketing that gave thefacebook it's start at Harvard.<p>Harvard had an intranet facebook like system, where you could browse pictures of freshmen living in your dorm. Zuckerberg went around plugging into each dorm downloading all the pictures.<p>He put the pictures up on facemash.com in a Hot-or-Not style competition. Harvard shut him down and the rest is history.<p><a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=350143">http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=350143</a>