TODAY IS FACEBOOKs 10th ANNIVERSARY Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The websites membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States, corporations, and by September 2006, to everyone of age 13 and older with a valid email address. Facemash, the Facebook’s predecessor, opened on October 28, 2003. Initially, the website was invented by a Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg, and three of his classmates – Andrew McCollum, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz. That night, Zuckerberg wrote the following blog entries: -Im a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if its not even 3 pm and its a Tuesday afternoon? What? The Kirkland dormitory facebook is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendiedous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of some farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.—2:49 pm -Yea, its on. Im not exactly sure how the farm animals are going to fit into this whole thing (you cant really ever be sure with farm animals...), but I like the idea of comparing two people together. —11:10 am -Let the hacking begin.—2:57 pm -By Colsen: I posted awhile back. Support Mark Zuckerberg!—11:00 pm -By Colsen: Wait!...why am I up this late?—2:23 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 the hotter person. To accomplish this, Mark Zuckerberg hacked the facebooks Harvard maintained to help students identify each other and used the images to populate his Facemash website.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:41:23 +0000
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