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Mark Zuckerberg created Facemash, the predecessor of Facebook, on October 28, 2003 while at Harvard as a second-year student. According to The Harvard Crimson, the site is similar to Hot or Not, and uses "photos obtained from Facebook (face book) online in nine dormitories, put two photos side by side at a time and ask users to choose which one is sexiest".


To solve it, Zuckerberg hacked into a portion of Harvard's protected computer network and copied pictures of personal ID dormitories. Harvard at the time did not have a "face book" (the directory containing photos and basic information) of the students. Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo views during the first four hours of airing.

The site was immediately forwarded to some campus group servers, but was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg was punished for breaching the campus security, infringing copyright, and violating the privacy of individuals, and threatened expulsion. However, the sentence was canceled. Zuckerberg expanded this initial project in the semester by making social studies tools for the final art history exam, by uploading 500 Augusta paintings to his website, with one image per page with a comment box. He opened the site to his classmates, and they started sharing notes.

In the following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website in January 2004. He was inspired, he said, by The Harvard Crimson editorial about the Facemash incident. On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "The Facebook" which originally resided on TheFacebook.com website.

Six days after the site was launched, three Harvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of deliberately diverting them to believe they helped them create a social network called HarvardConnection.com, while he used their idea to create a rival product . All three complained to Harvard Crimson, and this newspaper started an investigation. The three seniors filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg which was finally settled.

Membership was initially limited to Harvard College students only, and in the first month, more than half of undergraduate students at Harvard were listed on this site. Eduardo Saverin (businessman), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote this website. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale. The site then opened to other Ivy League schools, Boston University, New York University, MIT, and gradually several universities in Canada and the United States.

Facebook was incorporated in the summer of 2004, and businessman Sean Parker, who often advised Zuckerberg, was appointed president of the company. In June 2004, Facebook moved its operations center to Palo Alto, California. The company received its first investment of the month from PayPal's co-founder, Peter Thiel. The company removed The from its name after purchasing the facebook.com domain name in 2005 for $ 200,000.

Facebook launched a high school version in September 2005 that Zuckerberg considered a logical next step. At that time, the high school network needed an invitation to join. Facebook later expanded its membership requirements to employees of a number of companies, including Apple Inc. And Microsoft. Facebook then opens on September 26, 2006 to everyone 13 and above with a valid email address.

On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $ 240 million, giving Facebook a value of $ 15 billion. This purchase by Microsoft includes their right to place international ads on Facebook. In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would open an international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. In September 2009, Facebook said that they experienced positive cash flow for the first time. In November 2010, according to SecondMarket Inc., a private company stock exchange, Facebook's value reached $ 41 billion (thinly beat eBay) and became the third largest web company in the US after Google and Amazon. Facebook has been targeted as a potential candidate for an initial public offering in 2013.

Traffic to Facebook increased steadily after 2009. The number of Facebook visitors beat Google on March 13, 2010.

In March 2011, it was reported that Facebook deletes about 20,000 profiles from this site every day for a variety of reasons including spam, inappropriate content and underage users, as part of its

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