The History of Facebook
The founder of Facebook is Mark Zucherberg.
He was only a sophomore in Harvard University when he created 'thefacebook.
com'.
That was in the year 2004 and in 2005, the domain name was purchased for $200,000 and it was already known as 'Facebook'.
Back then, the membership was only limited to students of Harvard University.
On the first month of the site, about half of the population of Harvard was registered members already.
The website was promoted by programmer Dustin Moskovitz, business aspect by Eduardo Saverin, graphic artist Chris Hughes and Andrew McCollum.
In the same year (2004), the site already expanded to Yale, Columbia, and Stanford.
Facebook continued to expand and it eventually reached Boston schools including Ivy Leagues.
It gradually spread to various universities in the United States and Canada.
The base operations were moved to Palo Alto in California.
Last October 2008, the international headquarters was already transferred to Dublin, Ireland.
By September 2005, the high school (HS) version was launched.
However, in order to become a member, high school students needed an invitation.
After some time, employees were already invited which included Microsoft and Apple.
It was only in September 2006 when Facebook allowed teens to join but only those aged 13 and above and they should have a legitimate email address.
Today, Facebook and MySpace are competing with each other.
Users claim that these two sites are different especially when it comes to customization.
In Facebook, users can customize plain text while in MySpace, users can use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and HTML.
Users are free to interact with their friends because of the various free features of Facebook like Pokes, Photos, Status, Wall, etc.
Friends can post comments, send virtual pokes, upload and share photos, and post status messages to let others know about your actions and whereabouts.
The 'wall' is visible to your friends and other users of Facebook and you can set up your privacy settings.
In 2007, the users can already make attachments to the Wall and it is no longer limited to textual contents.
Ever since Facebook was introduced, it has already added many different features.
Now, you can find 'News feed' on the homepage of users.
Pieces of information are highlighted like that of upcoming events, profile changes, birthdays, and a lot more.
Now you know the interesting history of Facebook.
What started out as a university-based social network site is now a big-time site known all over the world.
He was only a sophomore in Harvard University when he created 'thefacebook.
com'.
That was in the year 2004 and in 2005, the domain name was purchased for $200,000 and it was already known as 'Facebook'.
Back then, the membership was only limited to students of Harvard University.
On the first month of the site, about half of the population of Harvard was registered members already.
The website was promoted by programmer Dustin Moskovitz, business aspect by Eduardo Saverin, graphic artist Chris Hughes and Andrew McCollum.
In the same year (2004), the site already expanded to Yale, Columbia, and Stanford.
Facebook continued to expand and it eventually reached Boston schools including Ivy Leagues.
It gradually spread to various universities in the United States and Canada.
The base operations were moved to Palo Alto in California.
Last October 2008, the international headquarters was already transferred to Dublin, Ireland.
By September 2005, the high school (HS) version was launched.
However, in order to become a member, high school students needed an invitation.
After some time, employees were already invited which included Microsoft and Apple.
It was only in September 2006 when Facebook allowed teens to join but only those aged 13 and above and they should have a legitimate email address.
Today, Facebook and MySpace are competing with each other.
Users claim that these two sites are different especially when it comes to customization.
In Facebook, users can customize plain text while in MySpace, users can use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and HTML.
Users are free to interact with their friends because of the various free features of Facebook like Pokes, Photos, Status, Wall, etc.
Friends can post comments, send virtual pokes, upload and share photos, and post status messages to let others know about your actions and whereabouts.
The 'wall' is visible to your friends and other users of Facebook and you can set up your privacy settings.
In 2007, the users can already make attachments to the Wall and it is no longer limited to textual contents.
Ever since Facebook was introduced, it has already added many different features.
Now, you can find 'News feed' on the homepage of users.
Pieces of information are highlighted like that of upcoming events, profile changes, birthdays, and a lot more.
Now you know the interesting history of Facebook.
What started out as a university-based social network site is now a big-time site known all over the world.
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