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Mark Zuckerberg created the Facemash, the predecessor up, dated October 28, 2003 when he was at Harvard as a sophomore. According to The Harvard Crimson, the site is similar to Hot or Not, and use the "photo obtained from facebook (face book) online in nine dormitories, putting two photos side by side at a time and ask users to choose which one of the most sexy". To solve , Zuckerberg hacking into the Harvard computer network that is protected and copy the pictures personal ID dorm. Harvard at that time did not have a "face book" (the directory containing the images and information base) of students. Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 the image on the first four hours on the air.

This site is directly forwarded to multiple servers campus group, but turned off a few days later by the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg convicted through campus security, violating copyrights and violate individual privacy, and threatened issued. However, the sentence to be overturned. Zuckerberg bermemperluas this initial project in the semester by creating tools to deal with social studies art history final exam, with 500 paintings Augusta uploaded to the website, with one image per page with a box komentar.Ia open the site to a friend classmates, and they began to share notes.

In the next semester, Zuckerberg started writing code for a new website in January 2004. He was inspired, he says, by The Harvard Crimson editorial about the incident Facemash.Pada February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched the "Thefacebook" which was originally located on the site thefacebook.com.
Six days after the site was launched, three senior Harvard, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accuses Zuckerberg deliberately diverting them for they believe it helps them create a social network called HarvardConnection.com, while he used their ideas to create a rival product . All three complained to the Harvard Crimson, and this newspaper begin an investigation. Three senior filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg is finally resolved.

Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College course, and in the first month, more than half the undergraduate student at Harvard listed on this site. Eduardo Saverin (businessman), Dustin Moskovitz (programmers), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes soon joined with Zuckerberg to help promote this web site. In March 2004, up extending themselves to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale.Situs is then opened into another Ivy League school, Boston University, University of New York, MIT, and slowly a few universities in Canada and the United States.

Up incorporated in the summer of 2004, and entrepreneur Sean Parker, who often gives advice to Zuckerberg, has been appointed as president perusahaan.Bulan June 2004, up moving the center of operations to Palo Alto, California.Perusahaan it received its first investment in that month from PayPal co-founder , Peter Thiel. The company is to remove the from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 with a value of $ 200.000.Facebook launched a high school version in September 2005 which considered Zuckerberg as a logical step selanjutnya.Pada that time, the network of secondary schools requires an invitation bergabung.Facebook then expand the requirements for membership to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc.. and Microsoft.Facebook then opened September 26, 2006 to everyone aged 13 years and above with a valid email address.

On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had bought 1.6% stake in Facebook worth $ 240 million, giving up value of $ 15 milyar.Pembelian by Microsoft this includes their right to place ads Facebook.Bulan international in October 2008, Facebook announced that they will open an international headquarters in Dublin, Irlandia.Bulan September 2009, Facebook said that they had positive cash flow for the first kalinya.Bulan November 2010, according to SecondMarket Inc.., a private company stock, the value of up to $ 41 billion (beating eBay thinly) and become the third largest web companies in the U.S. after Google and Amazon. Facebook has been targeted as potential candidates for initial public offering in 2013.

Traffic to Facebook increased stable after 2009. Number of visitors up to beat Google on March 13, 2010.Facebook also a social networking top of the eight individual markets in Asia, namely the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Vietnam, while other brands still maintain their top position in several markets, including Google's Orkut in India, Mixi.jp in Japan, CyWorld in South Korea, and Wretch.cc Yahoo! property in Taiwan.

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