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Makeoutclub.com is widely considered the first niche-audience social network. Launched in 1999 by web designer Gibby Miller, and preceding Friendster, Myspace, and Facebook, Makeoutclub (or MOC) was vital to the early development of profile-based communities, introducing features and concepts (such as photo/interests-based user profiles) which helped to forge what was later coined "Social Networking".