History of Facebook
History of Facebook Facebook is a social networking service launched on February 4, 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommate and fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin. [1] The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other areas in the Boston area, the Ivy League, [2] and gradually most universities in the United States and Canada, [3] [4] corporations, [5] and by September 2006, to everyone with a valid email address along with an age requirement of being 13 and older. [6] [7] Fasimus [edit] FaceMash, Facebook's predecessor, opened in 2003. Developed by Mark Zuckerberg, he wrote the software for the Facemash website when he was in his second year of college. The website was set up as a type of "hot or not" game for Harvard students. The website allowed visitors to compare two female student pictures by-by-side and let them decide who was hot or not. [8] ...
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