{"id":245205,"date":"2026-10-10T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T18:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/remember-orkut-its-founder-wants-to-bring-it-back"},"modified":"2026-10-10T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T18:08:12","slug":"remember-orkut-its-founder-wants-to-bring-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/remember-orkut-its-founder-wants-to-bring-it-back","title":{"rendered":"Remember Orkut? Its founder wants to bring it back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/remember-orkut-its-founder-wants-to-bring-it-back.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/orkut\/status\/2108263646409466352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">post<\/a> on X on Thursday, Orkut B\u00fcy\u00fckk\u00f6kten, the founder of the eponymous social network, urged users to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/Orkut.com\">Orkut.com<\/a> and add their names in support of bringing it back, as well as invite others to join.<\/p>\n<p>Orkut first debuted in 2004 as a side project by B\u00fcy\u00fckk\u00f6kten, 51, while he was at Google. The social network went on to become hugely popular in India and Brazil but later lost ground to Facebook. Google <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/06\/30\/google-will-shut-down-its-orkut-social-network-in-september\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eventually shut it down<\/a> in September 2014, shifting its focus to other platforms, including Google+ and YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter <a href=\"https:\/\/orkut.com\/en\/letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">published<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/Orkut.com\">Orkut.com<\/a>, B\u00fcy\u00fckk\u00f6kten criticized how social media has evolved over the past two decades, particularly the growing influence of algorithms and AI-generated content. \u201cArtificial intelligence is extraordinary technology, but it\u2019s dissolving the one premise that made social networking special and worth building: that there was a person on the other side,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a post on X on Thursday, Orkut B\u00fcy\u00fckk\u00f6kten, the founder of the eponymous social network, urged users to visit Orkut.com and add their names in support of bringing it back, as well as invite others to join. Orkut first debuted in 2004 as a side project by B\u00fcy\u00fckk\u00f6kten, 51, while he was at Google. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}