Facebook is a social media and website service, founded in February 2004 by former Harvard psychiatrist Mark Zuckerberg, his college classmates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Mark Zuckerberg (while studying at Harvard) used Facebook as one of his hobbies with financial support from Eduardo Saverin.
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Mark Zuckerberg took the first steps of his young career. To clearly understand the importance of coding, Zuckerberg's father Edward taught him the computer program Atari BASIC. It did not take long for his skills to become apparent. When he was 11, his parents hired a software developer named David Newman to train him. Newman to this day calls Zuckerberg a "producer".
Within a few years, Zuckerberg created an excellent operating system: ZuckNet. His father rushed the dentists to the house and sought an easy way for the receptionist to touch him without shouting at them. ZuckNet, which served as an internal messaging system, did just that.
While attending Phillips Exeter Academy, a high school, his creative drive did not go down well. He attracted interest from AOL and Microsoft. Who wants to buy Synapse, a piece of software that has learned the taste of user music through AI and listening habits with a friend, and gave him a job as well.
Eventually, he demolished it and set up his sites at Harvard. This is where Facebook’s origins are found. It is a decision he does not regret now.
What was the real purpose of Facebook?
The original purpose of Facebook, or "The Facebook" as it was known at the time, was to allow Harvard students to use their "and us" email addresses and photos to communicate with other students at the school.
A student at the time, Mark Zuckerberg, foresaw the possibility of bringing information available to the college community on the Internet. He wanted to create an environment that could help college students communicate.
Why did Mark Zuckerberg make Facebook?
In January 2004, Mark Zuckerberg began coding the code for this new site that would eventually become Facebook. Its promotion came from an editorial in The Harvard Crimson on Facebook that preceded the controversy, "FaceMash."
This site compares the faces of a different Harvard student and allows users to rate themselves attractively. Almost all night, it showed great popularity, attracting 22,000 views in just four hours.
Unfortunately for Zuckerberg, the site violated Harvard's policy by entering the school security system and copying student IDs used to access the dormitories to obtain the required images on that site, let alone for questionable taste. The university was closed within days.
Zuckerberg, surprisingly, managed to escape the eviction. A close, but useful call.
His experience with "FaceMash" helped spark the idea of a new site - a social networking site where Harvard students could use their "and our" email addresses and photos to communicate with other students at the school.
Now all it needed was a lovely name.
The name of the site was taken, by all accounts, from papers submitted to the newly started individual showing Harvard students and staff.
Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes - all former Harvard University students. Shortly after the new site was launched under the URL thefacebook.com.
The site was quickly hacked, and within 24 hours of launch, about 1,200 students signed up. Within a month, nearly half of all Harvard graduate students had a profile.
It soon spread to three other college campuses in the U.S. - Yale, Columbia and Stanford.
"It became Facebook.com in August 2005 after the address was sold for $ 200,000. American high schools can enroll from September 2005, and then begin to spread around the world, reaching UK universities the following month," the Guardian said.
Who was the first Facebook user?
You wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the first Facebook profile was not for anyone other than Mark Zuckerberg himself. Long before user profile URLs were changed to their current forms, they looked like "http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=" with a set number.
Zuckerberg's was id = 4.
What are some of the highlights of Facebook's history?
Here is a brief history of some of the biggest events and news events in Facebook history. This list is not exhaustive (after all and the waves are now waiting for someone): -
• February 2004 - Facebook (then "thefacebook") was founded by students Zuckerberg, Moskovitz, Saverin, and Hughes.
• June 2004 - Facebook relocates its headquarters to Palo Alto, California.
• May 2005 - Facebook expands more than 800 college campuses.
• October 2005 - Facebook adds photos and extends to other countries.
• December 2005 - Facebook has more than six million users.
• April 2006 - Facebook is off.
• December 2006 - Increase membership to 12 million.
• June 2007 - Introducing video capability.
• December 2007 - Membership increase to 58 million.
• July 2008 - Facebook launch for iPhone.
• February 2009 - A "similar" button was introduced.
• July 2010 - More than 500 million users are active on Facebook.
• August 2010 - Facebook engineering center opens in Seattle.
• October 2010 - Groups are formed.
• July 2011 - Video calling is introduced.
• April 2012 - Instagram availability announced.
• May 2012 - Facebook released its IPO - which raised $ 16 billion and gave the company a $ 102.4 billion market value in its Facebook stock.
• October 2012 - Membership is on the rise.
• February 2013 - Atlas discovery announced.
• June 2013 - The discovery of Facebook, Instagram, introduces video power.
• February 2014 - WhatsApp availability announced.
• March 2014 - Oculus Acquisition Announced.
• April 2014 - Facebook Business Manager's Facebook service launched.
• November 2014 - App groups announced.
• April 2015 - More than 40 million small business pages are now on Facebook.
• June 2015 - AI Research Facebook Group opens in Paris.
• February 2016 - Facebook Response Launch.
• July 2016 - There are now more than 1 billion Messenger users per month.
• October 2016 - Facebook Market Launch - allows users to buy and sell products.
• April 2017 - F8 developer conference is being held in San Jose via Facebook.
• September 2017 - News emerges that Facebook, and Microsoft, have completed work on the new Trans-Atlantic data cable.
• March 2018 - Facebook is being sued by shareholders, according to stock plummet.
• May 2018 - The trial of Facebook is a new technology to help stop “sexual retaliation,” by asking users to submit their nude photos.
• April 2018 - Zuckerberg testifies before Congress over concerns about data breaches and privacy.
• October 2018 - Facebook announces the launch of the new Facebook Portal: a hands-on video calling device.
• December 2018 - Facebook has announced the launch of "Stablecoin", a blockchain version in India.
• January 2019 - Facebook has invested $ 7.5 million to help launch the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence.
• April 2019 - Facebook reportedly set aside billions to pay for future FTC fines.
• May 2019 - Facebook removes a large number of fake accounts from its site.
• June 2019 - Facebook shareholders voted to remove Zuckerberg as Facebook chairman. 68% agreed with the proposal.
• June 2019 - Facebook starts blocking Huawei from installing its pre-programmed app on their smart devices.
• June 2019 - Facebook launches news of its digital wallets and money called Calibra.
• July 2019 - It was announced that Facebook is helping to create a road map using in-depth learning and AI-focused tools.
• August 2019 - Facebook files are suing various Hong Kong and Singapore developers for their fraudulent "click injection" activities.
• September 2019 - Facebook unveiled its dating feature like Tinder, which also comes with Instagram integration.
• September 2019 - Facebook receives $ 1 billion for CTRL-labs to study psychology.
• December 2019 - Facebook announces another major security breach.
• April 2020 - Facebook announces cancellation of all major public events until 2021 amid fears of COVID-19.
• May 2020 - Facebook buys GIPHY for hundreds of millions of dollars.
• June 2020 - Facebook unveils its new AI tool for converting 2D images into 3D models.
• June 2020 - Companies start pulling ads on Facebook by boycotting "hate speech". Facebook stock is taking a big hit.