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A few weeks ago, I wrote an article entitledHow Does Facebook Work?
The Nuts and Boltsdetailing how Facebook operates as part of our Technology Explained series.
In the article, I covered the technologies behind the social giant.
The story behind Facebook is fascinating.
It involves college students, booze, hacking, investigation, and farm animals.
Allow me to give you a bit of a history lesson.
Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook all starts withMark Zuckerberg.
How Did Facebook Originate?
Before there was a Facebook, there was Facemash.
Zuckerberg invented Facemash on October 28, 2003 while attending Harvard his sophomore year.
Mark posted: “Yea, it’s on.
Facemash became Harvard’s version ofHot or Not.
How exactly did he get the photos?
He hacked into Harvard’s computer web connection and copied them, of course.
This whole incident got the attention of Harvard’s school newspaper,The Harvard Crimson.
He faced expulsion but in the end the charges weredropped.
Thefacebook launched on February 4th.
“Everyone’s been talking a lot about a universal facebook within Harvard,” Zuckerberg toldThe Harvard Crimson.
I can do it better than they can, and I can do it in a week.”
In just 24 hours time, Thefacebook had nearly 1,500 registrants.
After a month, more than half the undergrad population at Harvard had accounts.
They dropped " The' from their name and purchased the facebook.com domain name for $200,000 in 2005.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Conclusion
Success stories are often fun to read about.
Although still young, Facebook continues to grow rapidly and has been a huge success.
It will be interesting to see where it goes in the future.
