Facebook is the first most popular social-networking site on internet after beating Twitter,Orkut and Yahoo.Everyone including 5year old child to 85year old senior citizen.Facebook has crossed 600million users till January 2011,Everyone is fan of Facebook But did anyone knows its History?Who founds it?Who designs it?.We will tell you its history in average description So Take a look-
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over.
Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook, on October 28, 2003, while attending Harvard as a sophomore. According to The Harvard Crimson, the site was comparable to Hot or Not, and "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, Zuckerberg hacked into the protected areas of Harvard's computer network and copied the houses' private dormitory ID images. Harvard at that time did not have a student "facebook" (a directory with photos and basic information). Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online.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 charged by the administration with breach of security, violating copyrights, and violating individual privacy, and faced expulsion. Ultimately, however, the charges were dropped.[15]Zuckerberg expanded on this initial project that semester by creating a social study tool ahead of an art history final, by uploading 500 Augustan images to a website, with one image per page along with a comment section.[14] He opened the site up to his classmates, and people started sharing their notes.The following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website in January 2004. He was inspired, he said, by an editorial in The Harvard Crimson about the Facemash incident.[16] On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.Facebook incorporated in the summer of 2004, and the entrepreneur Sean Parker, who had been informally advising Zuckerberg, became the company's president.[24] In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California.[21] It received its first investment later that month fromPayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.[25] The company dropped The from its name after purchasing thedomain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000
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| Mark Zuckerberg (Founder of Facebook) |
On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion.[38] Microsoft's purchase included rights to place international ads on Facebook.[39] In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.[40] In September 2009, Facebook said that it had turned cash flow positive for the first time.[41] In November 2010, based on SecondMarket Inc., an exchange for shares of privately held companies, Facebook's value was $41 billion (slightly surpassingeBay's) and it became the third-largest US web company after Google and Amazon.[42] Facebook has been identified as a possible candidate for an IPO by 2013Traffic to Facebook increased steadily after 2009. More people visited Facebook than Google for the week ending March 13, 2010.[44] Facebook also became the top social network across eight individual markets—in Australia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Vietnam, while other brands commanded the top positions in certain markets, including Google-owned Orkut in India, Mixi.jp in Japan, CyWorld in South Korea, and Yahoo!'s Wretch.cc in Taiwan.
In March 2011 it was reported that Facebook removes approximately 20,000 profiles from the site every day for various infractions, including spam, inappropriate content and underage use, as part of its efforts to boost cyber security.
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| FB profile shown on 2005 |
On June 13, 2009, Facebook introduced a "Usernames" feature, whereby pages can be linked with simpler URLs such as
as opposed to
http://www.facebook.com/facebook as opposed to
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=20531316728. Many new smartphonesoffer access to the Facebook services either through their web-browsers or applications. An official Facebook application is available for the iPhone OS, the Android OS, and the WebOS. Nokia andResearch In Motion both provide Facebook applications for their own mobile devices. More than 150 million active users access Facebook through mobile devices across 200 mobileoperators in 60 countries.  |
| FB profile shown on 2007 |
On November 15, 2010, Facebook announced a new "Facebook Messages" service. In a media event that day, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, "It's true that people will be able to have an @facebook.com email addresses, but it's not email." The launch of such a feature had been anticipated for some time before the announcement, with some calling it a "Gmail killer." The system, to be available to all of the website's users, combines text messaging, instant messaging, emails, and regular messages, and will include privacy settings similar to those of other Facebook services. Codenamed "Project Titan," Facebook Messages took 15 months to develop.[101][102]
In February 2011, Facebook began to use the hCalendar microformat to mark up events, and thehCard microformat for the events' venues, enabling the extraction of details to users' own calendar or mapping applications
So that was the history of Facebook,I hope you will get some knowledge about FB.
SHIVAM GAUTAM (Founder/editor ShivamSoftwares)-
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