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Move over Zuck, Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for Facebook in 1845

You can’t make this stuff up, folks. Intrepid reporter (or just nosey historian) Nate St. Pierre did some digging in the grand old town of Springfield, IL where he took a tour of the Lincoln Museum and stumbled onto the “Springfield Gazette”, which was a paper entirely about Abraham Lincoln.

For more information visit – http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/05/08/move-over-zuck-abraham-lincoln-filed-a-patent-for-facebook-in-1845/