Facebook History By keigo.s May 14, 1984 Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born in New York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook Oct 23, 2003 Zuckerberg wrote a program called "Facemash" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook Jan 1, 2004 Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook Feb 4, 2004 Zuckerberg launched "The face book", originally located at the face book.com. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook Oct 25, 2005 entrepreneur and banker Rahul Jain auctioned off FaceMash.com to an unknown buyer for $30,201. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook Sep 26, 2006 everyone aged 13 and older with a valid e-mail address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook Oct 1, 2008 Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook Aug 1, 2009 Facebook acquired social media real-time news aggregator FriendFeed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook Feb 1, 2010 Facebook acquired Malaysian contact-importing startup Octazen Solutions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook Apr 2, 2010 Facebook announced acquisition of photo-sharing service called Divvyshot for an undisclosed amount https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook Jun 1, 2010 an online marketplace for trading private Facebook stock reflected a valuation of $11.5 billion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook Apr 12, 2012 Facebook acquired photo sharing service Instagram for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook Sep 24, 2012 The number of Facebook user exceed 1000 million https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook Feb 19, 2014 Facebook announced it is acquiring WhatsApp Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook Apr 24, 2014 Facebook and Storyful announced a new feature called FB Newswire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook