Parakey is a web-based computer user interface proposed by

Firefox Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and ...

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Blake Ross Blake Aaron Ross (born June 12, 1985) is an American software engineer who is best known for his work as the co-creator of the Mozilla Firefox internet browser with Dave Hyatt. In 2005, he was nominated for ''Wired'' magazine's top Rave Award, R ...

and Joe Hewitt. Ross describes it as "a Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do." The idea behind it is to make

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, and

writing Writing is a medium of human communication which involves the representation of a language through a system of physically Epigraphy, inscribed, Printing press, mechanically transferred, or Word processor, digitally represented Symbols (semiot ...

transfer to the web easier. He explains that the current problem with transferring data to the web is that in order to move an

onto the web you first have to transfer pictures from your digital camera, then upload them to a place like Flickr. Or, if you want to rant, you launch a

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before you can start talking. On 20 July 2007 Parakey was bought by

Facebook Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin M ...

for an undisclosed sum. The purchase also included the developers' assistance in progressing Facebook. Parakey was Facebook, Inc's first acquisition.

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