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There’s a legend that a Facebook employee chose www for their username and broke all sorts of stuff.

That is a real thing that happened.

What things broke?

If by any chance that led to the push for 'real name' and thereby Facebook realizing it to be the cash cow; Then that person has single handedly broke more than just software.

Can confirm they started our as an intern, I had to fix the internal tools that broke.

The main issue was that at this point in time, we were relying on people’s Unix names to directly to setup the person’s dev box. Obviously, <unixname>.dev.facebook.com with the unixname of www was going to lead to issues. It just broke things internally and was fixed pretty quickly.

Cmon dude

Hackers yo

Testers, surely.