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Facemash
Mark Zuckerburg created a website called Facemash that was comparable to the website Hot or Not. The website had a collection of pictures of Harvard students and would put two pictures side-by-side and give the choice to pick who was "hotter". Zuckerburg did this by hacking into Harvard's computer network and taking the pictures from students' ID pictures. The website had 450 visitors and 22,000 photo views within its first four hours online. -
Thefacebook.com released
Mark Zuckerburg was inspired by an article about Facemash in The Harvard Crimson. -
Thefacebook expands
Mark Zuckerburg expanded from just Harvard to allow students from Stanford, Columbia, and Yale to register. -
Thefacebook becomes Facebook
Mark Zuckerburg purchased the domain "facebook.com" in 2005 for $200,000 and changed the name from Thefacebook to just Facebook. -
Facebook opened to high school
High school networks were able to join Facebook but required an invitation to join. -
Registration opened more
Anyone age 13 and over was now able to create an account. -
Facebook booms
Facebook's number of active users grew 178% throughout the month. -
Facebook beats Google
During the week ending March 13, 2010, Facebook received more visitors than Google. -
AppCenter
Facebook announces AppCenter which sells applications that connect to Facebook. -
Facebook goes public
Facebook's initial public offering was $38 per stock valuing the company at $104 billion -
Graph Search
Facebook announced their graph search which would give users a precise answer rather than links through the data on Facebook.