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It was a literal factbook online. In high school, I remember using it to look up facts like the area or population of different countries.

I feel a bit twitchy remembering the pain of trying to do the references right for websites back then.

The title of this submission says "Facebook", not "Factbook". That's what they were referring to.

No, it was a guidebook anyone could use for just about every country. It well predates PRISM, and was well regarded until it was discontinued.

That was the factbook

I had to read it twice times. It has always been cited on Wikipedia for as long as I can remember.

Freudian Slip. Everyone knows that Facebook is Five Eyes Book/Mossadbook

It's a typo in the HN title which should be corrected. Should be World Factbook; nothing to do with Facebook.

I thought it was a site exposing CIA undercover agents