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]

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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]

Excerpt Writing Software, Mark Flewing Blog Entry for Mark Zuckerberg: [9

I'm a little nudge, not gonna lie So what if it's not even 10 pm and it's a Tuesday night? What? The Kirkland d

ormitory facebook is open on my desktop and some of them are very horrendiedous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces and some people who vote on it.

- 2:49 pm

Yea, it's on I'm not exactly sure how the farm animals are going to fit in this whole thing (you can not really be sure to farm animals ...), but I like the idea of comparing two people together.\

— 11:10 am

According to The Harvard Crimson, Facemash used "photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose" hotter "person. [8] Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online. [10]

The site was quickly forwarded to several campus group list-servers, but was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg was expulsion and was charged by the administration with breach of security, violating copyright, and violating personal privacy. Ultimately, the charges were dropped. [8] Zuckerberg expanded on this initial project that made a social study tool ahead of an art history. He uploaded all the images to a corresponding comment section, then shared his classmates with the site, and people started sharing notes. [11]

On October 25, 2010, entrepreneur and banker Rahul Jain auctioned off FaceMash.com to an unknown buyer for $ 30,201. [12] [13]

A "face book" is a student directory featuring photos and basic information. [10] In 2003, there were no universal online facebooks at Harvard, with only paper sheets distributed [14] and private online directories. [8] [15] Zuckerberg told the Crimson that "Everybody's talking about a lot about a universal face book within Harvard. [...] I think it's kind of silly that it will take the University of a couple of years to get around it. I can do it "[15] In January 2004, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website, known as" Thefacebook ", with the inspiration coming from an editorial in the Crimson about Facemash, stating that "It is clear that the technology needed to create a centralized website is readily available ... the benefits are many". [9] On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "TheFacebook", originally thefacebook.com. [ 16]

Zuckerberg also stated his intention to make a universal website that can connect people around the university According to his roommate, Dustin Moskovitz, "When Mark finished the site, he told a couple of friends ... then one of them suggested put it on the Kirkland House online mailing list, which was ... three hundred people." Moskovitz continued to say that, "By the end of the night, we were ... actively watching the registration process. Within twenty-four hours, we had somewhere between twelve hundred and fifteen hundred registrants. "[17]

Just six days after the launch of the site, three Harvard University seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of knowingly misleading him in believing that he would be helping build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, but instead using their idea to build a competing product. [18] The three complained to the Crimson, and the newspaper started an investigation. Zuckerberg knew about the investigation so he used TheFacebook.com to find members in the site who identified himself as Crimson. He does not want any of the Crimson members to enter the wrong password in TheFacebook.com. In the cases in which they had failed to log in, Crimson members' Harvard email accounts, and he was successful in accessing two of them. In the end, three Crimson members filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg which was later settled. [18] [19]

Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard University. Within the first month, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the service. [20] Zuckerberg was soon involved in the promotion of the site by Eduardo Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale. [2] This expansion continued when it opened to all Ivy League and Boston-area schools It gradually reached most universities in the United States and Canada. [21] [22] [23] Facebook was incorporated in the summer of 2004, and the entrepreneur Sean Parker, who had informally advising Zuckerberg, became the company's president. [24] In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California. [2] The company dropped 'The' from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $ 200,000. [25]

By December 2005, Facebook has 6 million users. [26]

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On October 1, 2005, Facebook expanded to twenty-one universities in the United Kingdom and others around the world. Facebook launches a high school version in September 2005, which zuckerberg called the next logical step. [42] At that time, high school networks required an invitation to join. [43] Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft. [44] On December 11, 2005, universities in Australia and New Zealand were added to the Facebook network, bringing its size to 2,000+ colleges and 25,000 + high schools throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland Facebook then opened on September 26, 2006 to everyone aged 13 and older with a valid e-mail address. [6] [7]

Late in 2007, Facebook has 100,000 business pages, allowing companies to attract potential customers and tell about themselves. These started as group pages, but a new concept named company pages was planned. [45]

In October 08, Facebook Announces It's Bold Set-up It's International Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. [46]

In 2010, Facebook started users to become beta testers after passing a question-and-answer-based selection process, [47] and a set of Facebook Engineering Puzzles where users would solve the computational problems which gave them a chance to be hired by Facebook. [48]

As of February 2011, Facebook has become the largest online photo host, being cited by Facebook application and online photo aggregator Pixable as expecting to have 100 billion photos by summer 2011. [49] As of October 2011, over 350 million users accessed Facebook through their mobile phones, accounting for 33% of all Facebook traffic. [50]

On March 12, 2012, Yahoo filed suit in a U.S. Federal court against Facebook weeks before the scheduled Facebook initial public offering. In its court filing, Yahoo said that Facebook has infringed on its patents covering advertisement, privacy controls and social networking. Yahoo had threatened to sue Facebook a month before the filing, insisting that the social network license its patents A spokesperson for Facebook issued a statement saying "We're disappointed that Yahoo, a long-time business partner of Facebook and a company that has Facebook with its association from substantially benefited, has decided to resort to the resort". [51] The lawsuit claims that Yahoo's patents cover basic social networking ideas such as customizing website users' experiences to their needs, adding that the patents cover ways of individual users to targeting ads. [52] In 2012, Facebook App Center, an online mobile store, was rolled out. The store initially had 500 Facebook apps which were more games. [53]

On April 24, 2014, Facebook and Storyful announced a new feature called FB Newswire.^[54]

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