Facemash Well May be you are using facebook from the last 1 2 or 5 years but the question here arises who devolp facebbok. So here is the full article on the history of World's largest social networking site FACEBOOK.
Mark Zuckerberg invented Facemash on October 28, 2003 while attending Harvard as a sophomore. The site represented a Harvard University version of Hot or Not, according to the Harvard Crimson.That night, Zuckerberg was blogging about a girl who had dumped him and
trying to think of something to do to get her off his mind:
I'm a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it's not even
10 p.m. and it's a Tuesday night? What? The Kirkland [dorm] facebook is
open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendous
facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to
pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more
attractive.
—9:48 pm
Yea, it's on. I'm not exactly sure how the farm animals are going
to fit into this whole thing (you can't really ever be sure with farm
animals...), but I like the idea of comparing two people together.
—11:09 pm
Let the hacking begin.
—12:58 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, 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 directory with photos
and basic information and the initial site generated 450 visitors and
22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online.That the initial site mirrored people’s physical community—with their
real identities—represented the key aspects of what later became
Facebook.
"Perhaps Harvard will squelch it for legal reasons without realizing
its value as a venture that could possibly be expanded to other schools
(maybe even ones with good-looking people...)," Zuckerberg wrote in his
personal blog. "But one thing is certain, and it’s that I’m a jerk for
making this site. Oh well. Someone had to do it eventually..."
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, but ultimately the charges were dropped.
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.
He opened the site up to his classmates and people started sharing
their notes. "The professor said it had the best grades of any final
he’d ever given. This was my first social hack. With Facebook, I wanted
to make something that would make Harvard more open," Zuckerberg said
in a TechCrunch interview.
Thefacebook
Thefacebook on February 12, 2004
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. "It is clear that the technology needed to
create a centralized Website is readily available," the paper observed.
"The benefits are many." On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.
"Everyone’s been talking a lot about a universal face book within
Harvard," Zuckerberg told The Harvard Crimson. "I think it’s kind of
silly that it would take the University a couple of years to get around
to it. I can do it better than they can, and I can do it in a week."
"When Mark finished the site, he told a couple of friends. And then one
of them suggested putting it on the Kirkland House online mailing list,
which was, like, three hundred people," according to roommate Dustin Moskovitz.
"And, once they did that, several dozen people joined, and then they
were telling people at the other houses. By the end of the night, we
were, like, actively watching the registration process. Within
twenty-four hours, we had somewhere between twelve hundred and fifteen
hundred registrants."
Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College, and within the first month, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the service.Eduardo Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote the website. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale. This expansion continued when it opened to all Ivy League and Boston area schools, and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States.Facebook incorporated in the summer of 2004 and the entrepreneur Sean Parker, who had been informally advising Zuckerberg, became the company's president. In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California. The company dropped The from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.
Facebook launched a high school version in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called the next logical step. At that time, high school networks required an invitation to join. Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft.Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006 to everyone of ages 13 and older with a valid e-mail address.In October 2008, Facebook announced that it was to set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.
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