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Mark Zuckerberg becomes network developer for HarvardConnections.com
Harvard seniors Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra were on the lookout for a web developer to bring life to the idea of a social network for Harvard students and alumni.
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Zuckerberg starts thinking about creating Facebook
Mark sent the following email to the HarvardConnections team:
"I put together one of the two registration pages so I have everything working on my system now. I'll keep you posted as I patch stuff up and it starts to become completely functional."
A few weeks later the emails sent by Zuckerberg acquire a more detatched tone, and it has been speculated that this was because around the time, he was already working on the social network Facebook. -
Launching of Facebook
19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched the site as a Harvard sophomore along with fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. -
Investors start contributing to the project
Accel partners invested $12.7 million in Facebook, and Jim Breyer added a further $1 million of his own money. -
Facebook launches a high school version
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Facebook is opened to everyone of age 13 and older with an email address
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Facebook counts 25 million members worldwide
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Facebook has 100,000 business pages
These allowed companies to attract potential customers and give infromation about themselves. These started as group pages, but a new concept called company pages was planned. -
Compete.com study ranked Facebook most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users
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According to Social Media Today, an estimated 41.6% (129.5 million) of the U.S. population had a Facebook account.
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Zuckerberg is accused of plagiarism
A week later Zuckerberg was accused by three Harvard seniors of having stolen the idea from them.
This deveolped into a lawsuit on behalf of the Winklevoss brothers and Divya Narendra, who sued Mark Zuckerberg for theft and fraud. -
Facebook increases it's popluarity in diverse age groups
According to Consumer Reports survey, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts and 5 million under 10, violating the site's terms of service, and Quantcast estimates that at this same time, Facebook had138.9 million monthly unique U.S. visitors -
Facebook became headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
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Facebook Inc. starts selling stock to the public and trading on the NASDAQ.
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Facebook adds a gay marriage icon to its timeline feature
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Facebook has over one billion active users.
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800 million active users on Facebook
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Facebook unveils 'Home'
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Facebook announced App Center
This is an online mobile store which sells applications that connect to Facebook. The store will be available to iPhone, Android and mobile web users.
