Cinco de Mayo has always been one of our favorite days at LinkedIn, and not just because we love any excuse to eat tacos and drink margaritas. It's because May 5th was the day we first launched LinkedIn back in 2003. Eight years is a long time, but in the technology world, it can seem like an eternity. Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter... none of them existed...

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Happy Cinco de LinkedIn!
Chris Saccheri May 5, 2008
Cinco de Mayo holds a special place in our hearts here at LinkedIn. In addition to being an excuse to down margaritas and tacos, it marks the fifth anniversary of the day we launched LinkedIn: May 5, 2003. The web was a different place back then; Friendster was the hottest site around, terms like "Web 2.0" and "AJAX" hadn't yet been coined, web pages were still...
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Moving Trucks and Birthday Cakes
Chris Saccheri May 4, 2007
This weekend, LinkedIn celebrates two milestones: first, after outgrowing our current Palo Alto digs, we're moving to our fifth office (not counting Reid's living room). We'll be back in Mountain View, just down the road from the office where we originally launched LinkedIn -- an office that we once shared with Friendster. The other milestone is the fourth...
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