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First Website
Mark Zuckerberg releases Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook. It was described as a Harvard University version of Hot or Not. -
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Trouble with Thefacebook
Three Harvard seniors, accused Zuckerberg of stealing their ideas for an intended social network website called HarvardConnection, and of using their ideas for TheFacebook. -
Sean Parker becomes president
Sean Parker (founder of Napster) became the company's president. -
Making a Partenership
Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin form Thefacebook.com LLC, a partnership -
First Investment
Facebook receives its first investment from Peter Thiel for US$500,000. -
Moving
Facebook moves its base of operations to Palo Alto, California. -
Investment
Accel Partners invests $13 million into Facebook. -
Thefacebook changes to facebook
The company changed the name from TheFacebook to just Facebook after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000. -
Loss of Money
A leaked cash flow statement shows that Facebook had a net loss of $3.63 million for the 2005 fiscal year. -
Possibly Yahoo
Facebook discusses with Yahoo! about the latter possibly acquiring the former, for $1 billion. -
High School Website
Facebook launches a high school version of the website -
The Social Network
The Social Network, a film about the beginnings of Facebook directed by David Fincher is released. The film is met with widespread critical acclaim as well as commercial success; however, Mark Zuckerberg says that the film is a largely inaccurate account of what happened. -
Facebook App
Facebook launches iPad app. -
New Timeline
Facebook announced that all of the pages will be automatically upgraded to its Timeline view on March 30, 2012.
