@endless.xyz: 19 years ago on February 4 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook at age 19 A social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another. It all began in 2003, when Zuckerberg created an online programme called “Facemash”, which allowed users to objectify fellow students by comparing photos of their faces and selecting who they deemed as “hotter”. While Zuckerberg faced punishment from the Harvard administration and narrowly escaped expulsion from the college altogether for his actions, “Facemash” provided the framework for what was to become Facebook. Online “face books” already existed at Harvard at the time. These were online directories that featured photos of students alongside some information about them. There wasn’t a single “face book” for the whole student body of Harvard university, which is why Zuckerberg came up with the idea to create one, “thefacebook.com made exclusively for Harvard students. Six days after “TheFacebook” was made live by Zuckerberg and co-founders Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, they faced accusations by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra that the idea for the site had been stolen from them. Later a lawsuit would be filed against Zuckerberg, eventually all three received a settlement in 2008 that included 1.2 million shares in the company each. Fast forward 19 years, the company is now worth $350 billion & has 3 billion users on its platform.

endless.xyz

Open In TikTok:

Region: CA

Saturday 04 February 2023 19:03:56 GMT