Wednesday, August 28, 2013

History of facebook

Mark Zuckerberg 
Founder of Facebook
Founder of facebook was Mark Zuckerberg,he invented facebook in Harvard university in Feb,2004;with his 3 classmates- Andrew McCollum, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz.


Early History
First homepage of facebook.com
facebook's journy was started as just one type of game website,in this game website give you a two photos,and you have to vote that who is hotter than other,this game was "hot or not"
this website beccame very popular in harvard university,it has 450 visitors and 22,000 pageviews in just first 4 hours,but after this website launching,
Mark  faced charges of violating copyrights,breach of security,& violating individual privacy for stealing the student pictures that he used to populate the website.  
            But after this website launching,Mark began(in early2004) writing code for new website,and that website was "thefacebook.com",Mark started thefacebook.com for only "Harvard students",but at that time he don't know that his website would be became worldfamous !!
Court Matter

After six days of launching,Mark's three Harvard University seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing that he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, but instead using their idea to build a competing product.
This court matter indirectly gave publicity to thefacebook.com,and it gave it more users
and than Mark deals with his three seniors to gave him 
 $65 million outside the court,and after that they(mark's seniors) take back his case from the court.

Interesting Facts about Facebook


  • You can also write "thefacebook.com" or "fb.com" to get acces to facebook.com
  • If you type @[4:0] in any comment you get 'Mark Zuckerberg'
  • Facebook has 1,110 million user (march,2013)
  • Fore more tricks (just like to get more likes on facebook) and tips about facebook check LINK

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