Timeline of Facebook

  • Creation

    Zuckerberg,launches Facebook as a Harvard-only social network
  • Creation

    Zuckerberg registers thefacebook.com domain
  • Financial / leagl

    Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin form Thefacebook.com LLC, a partnership.
  • User Base

    Facebook achieves its one millionth registered user.
  • Financial / leagl

    Accel Partners invests $13 million into Facebook.
  • Acquisition talk

    A potential acquisition of Facebook is reportedly under negotiations, for $750 million first, then later $2 billion.
  • User Base

    Facebook is open to everyone aged 13 and over, and with a valid email address.
  • Product

    Facebook announces Facebook Platform for developers to build applications on top of Facebook's social graph.
  • Product

    Facebook announces a feature whereby people can @-tag friends in their status updates and comments.
  • Acquisitions by Facebook

    Facebook announces the acquisition of photo-sharing service called Divvy-shot for an undisclosed amount.
  • Accessibility

    Facebook launches Facebook Zero, allowing for free access to a text-only version of Facebook's mobile website with some carriers.
  • Product

    Product
    Facebook allows people to subscribe to non-friends and to set the extent to which they receive updates from their existing friends and people they are subscribing to.
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