Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook, on October 28, 2003, while attending Harvard as a sophomore . The site represented a Harvard University version of Hot or Not , [12] and 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". [13] Mark Zuckerberg co-created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room. 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. [17] 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. [20] 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 . [21] This expansion continued when it opened as well to all other Ivy League schools and Boston University , New York University , MIT , and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States. [22] [23]
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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 from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel . [25] The company dropped The from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000. [26] Total active users [N 1] (in millions) Date Users Days later Monthly growth [N 2] August 26, 2008100 [27] 1,665178.38% April 8, 2009200 [28] 22513.33% September 15, 2009300 [29] 15010% February 5, 2010400 [30] 1436.99% July 21, 2010500 [6] 1664.52%—600132 (ongoing)— Facebook launched a high school version in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called the next logical step. [31] At that time, high school networks required an invitation to join. [32] Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft . [33] Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006, to everyone of ages 13 and older with a valid email address . [34] [35] 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. [36] Microsoft's purchase included rights to place international ads on Facebook. [37] In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarters in Dublin , Ireland . [38] In September 2009, Facebook said that it had turned cash flow positive for the first time. [39] In November 2010, based on SecondMarket Inc., an exchange for share of privately held companies, Facebook value was $41 billion (surpassing EBay's slightly), and it became the third-largest US Web Company after Google and Amazon. [40] Traffic to Facebook increased steadily after 2009. More people visited Facebook than Google for the week ending March 13, 2010. [41] Facebook also became the top social network across eight individual markets in Asia—the Philippines, Australia, 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.[ citation needed ]
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Mark Elliot " Zuck " Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) 截至 2010 年 3 月,他拥有 24 %的 Facebook 股份,他也是世界上最年轻的亿万富翁,总资产达 40 亿美元。 Eduardo Saverin (born March 19, 1982) Sean Parker (born December 3, 1979)