How Facebook was found by Mark Zuckerberg

FaceMash A Fun Site for Voting

In 2003, on summer when Mark Zuckerberg suffered from insomnia in the Harvard dormitory room, then he got an idea to create a website called FaceMash. Mark Zuckerberg decided to hack the database of Harvard University, where the students uploaded their profile pictures. He quickly wrote a program, in that randomly selected any two pictures of any two random female students and put them next to each other, and asking “Who is hotter?”, giving the option for voting.

The process was in full swing and site was visited by most of the students at Harvard University. When the number of visitors cross the limit, the server crashed due to overload. Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the committee on computer hacking. Of course, nobody told Mark Zuckerberg ‘Well done!’ and he received a disciplinary notice, and had noticed that such kind of things cause stormy interest in society.

Success story of Facebook

In January 2004, Mark Zuckerberg began writing the code for a new website, known as "theFacebook". and he said in an article in The Harvard Crimson that he was inspired to make Facebook from the incident of Facemash. On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.

2004

In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Yale and Columbia. This expansion continued when it opened to all Ivy League and Boston area schools. It successively reached most universities in Canada and the United States. Facebook was incorporate in the summer of 2004, and the businessman Sean Parker, who had been informally advising Mark Zuckerberg, became the president of the company. In 2004 June, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California. The company dropped "The" word from its name "thefacebook"  after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.

2005 & 2006

On 1 October, 2005, Facebook expanded to twenty-one universities in the United Kingdom and others around the world. Facebook launched a version of high school in September 2005, which Mark Zuckerberg called the next logical step. At that time, high school networks need an invitation to join. Facebook later extended membership eligibility to employees of many  companies, including Microsoft and Apple Inc. On 11 December 2005, universities in  New Zealand and Australia were added to the Facebook network, bringing its size to 25,000 + high schools and 2,000+ colleges throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland. Facebook was opened on September 26, 2006 to everyone minimum age 13 and older with a valid e-mail address.

2007

Late in 2007, Facebook had 100,000 business pages, allowing companies to attract probable customers and tell about themselves. These started as group pages, but a new concept was planned called company pages.

2008

In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

2010

In 2010, Facebook began to invite users to become beta testers after passing a questions-and-answers based selection process, and a set of Facebook Engineering Puzzles where users would solve various computational problems which gave them an chance to be hired by Facebook.

2011

As of February 2011, Facebook had become the largest online photos host, being cited by Facebook application and online photo aggregator Pixable as expecting to have hundred billion photos by summer 2011. As of October 2011, over 350 million users accessed Facebook using their mobile phones, accounting for 33% of all Facebook traffic.

2012

On March 12 2012, Yahoo! filed suit in a United states federal court against Facebook weeks before the scheduled Facebook initial public offering. In its court filing, Yahoo said that Facebook had break on ten of its patents covering privacy controls, advertising and social networking. Yahoo had bluster to sue Facebook a month before the filing, insisting that the social network license its patents. A spokes-person for Facebook issued a statement saying "We're disappointed that Yahoo, a longtime   Facebook business partner and a company that has really benefited from its association with Facebook, has decided to concealment to litigation". The lawsuit claims that Yahoo's patents cover basic social networking ideas such as customizing website user's experiences to their needs, adding that the patents cover ways of targeting ads to individual users. In 2012, an online mobile store, called Facebook App Center was rolled out. The store initially had 500 Facebook apps which were mostly games

2014

On 24 April, 2014, Facebook and Storyful announced a new feature called FB Newswire.