To start, Id like to tell you a story. In 1999, three years before Friendster, four years before Myspace, and five years before Mark Zuckerberg launched Thefacebook from his Harvard dorm room, Omar Wasow founded BlackPlanet.

Who created BlackPlanet?

Omar Wasow BlackPlanet/Created by BlackPlanet was launched on September 1, 2001 by Omar Wasow, an Internet analyst, who in 2001 was running New York Online, a pre-web community he started in 1993 from his living room in Brooklyn. It was the brainchild of Wasow and Community Connects CEO Benjamin Sun.