Yep, kids, I remember it liken it wuz just an hour ago.  Twitter wuz all a buzz for days 'bout the coming rush for Facebook vanity URLs that wuz to take place at 12:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time on that there mornin' of June 13, 2009.  So wuz all the great online journals back in them days — InformationWeek, ZDNet, Mashable, The Daily Beast, ... you know, all the mainstream journals.

There I wuz, sittin' at my keyboard at 11:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time on the night of June 12, 2009—just hittin' F5 awaitin for the big day.  Then just like that, I seen it.  I could register my own user name on Facebook.

I wuz one of the lucky ones.  I struck solid gold.  I grabbed www.facebook.com/faseidl fer my very own.  It wuz incredible.  It matched my Twitter name, my blogsite domain name, my e-mail name, my Intense Debate nickname, you name it.  Then I got double lucky cuz I ran over to Carol's laptop and I grabbed fer her www.facebook.com/caseidl.  Unbelievable.

Then I just sat back and waited for the SEO to kick in and watch my traffic spike.

While I wuz waitin' I wuz Twitterin' with a bunch of nice folks that were all a gettin' their own vanity URLs.  One nice fella named @skydiver wuz even talking to another guy named @Mashable (they have funny names sometimes on Twitter) and they wuz a sayin' that in the first hour and six minutes over a million folks grabbed their own vanity URLs.

Then another guy named @nullsession (see what I mean about funny names?) wuz sayin' that somebody should just hurry on up and get it over with and make a special app that would find and friend all of a persons Twitter friends, but this time in Facebook.  And I guess it wuz a pretty good idea because not five minutes later this other guy named @AdamPieniazek (see what I mean again?) wuz a tweetin' that Facebook wuz a warnin' him that he wuz friendin' folks too fast and they wuz gonna get mad at him (but I don't think they ever really did cause about 85% friended him back right away.)

After just a few minutes, the first Facebook vanity URLs were already fer sale on this web site called www.assetize.com and it wuz someone sellin' "alex".  But this one guy named @Jesse on Twitter wuz askin' how could a body be sellin' a 4-letter name when 5-letter name's wuz the minimum you could register unlessen one of them Facebook people wuz already sellin' their own special rules name.

Anyway, there wuz lots of chit chat (ya know, tweetin') about that kind of stuff for a long time and then it wuz pretty much over.  Turned out I didn't never get a huge traffic spike because of special SEO juice from my Facebook URL.  But that Facebook company sure got lots a good PR, and later on for a while, they got lots a search referrals to Facebook-branded user profile pages which I guess helped them out for a while.

No matter, a couple years later, there wuz a whole bunch a new ways folks wuz hookin' up online and not too many folks wuz chattin' about Facebook no more.  It wuz still around for a few more years after that, but eventually it got to be kinda like Compuserve and them others.

But yesiree, I wuz there in them wild 66 minutes fer the great Facebook Land Grab of aught 9.  It wuz pure crazy.