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I can remember Hot or Not being before Friendster. I don't know when it started, but I found it around 2000.
For anyone unaware, the idea was simple. Go to the website, and you'd be presented with a random picture. Could be male, could be female. You could adjust these settings to be more specific as to which pictures you'd get.
But basically, you'd see a picture. Then you vote. Hot? Or not? And after you vote, you can see another picture to vote on, as well as the score from the previous voted on picture.
That's it. Thats the whole thing. No messaging. No interacting. Nothing. Just you having an account that you upload a single picture to. Then other people can randomly get the chance to vote on you, and you can also check your own score. The ONLY other thing you could do is share your URL with friends. Usually through AIM or YIM or ICQ or MSN Messanger.
I really think that concept was ahead of its time. I think it would have worked really well as an app in 2016.