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History of the beginnings of Facebook

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 22 Juni 2012 | 02.27

For us, if not unusual to have a facebook account. almost all over the world have facebook accont this. how the history of the origins of Facebook made? nieh history.
Started when Mark Zuckerberg (the time the second semester student at Harvard University) created a dating site for college peers. Zuckerberg is inspired from the site Hot or Not naming Facemash.com homemade sites. The method of this website that is displaying two images pairs (male and female), whereupon the two pairs will be chosen by the members of the site where the pair of the most "hot". Well, to display photos of the couple on this site, Zuckerberg seeks by all means look for photos of his colleagues by traveling 'door-to-door to ask foto.1
So nekatnya, Zuckerberg broke into the campus computer network access to obtain additional photographs. But the action is known to the campus and they were subsequently followed by blocking sites Facemash.com Zuckerberg action by the threat of sanctions to be fired from the campus (although this threat is not to be realized). His actions were, Zuckerberg defended himself by saying "The action of the college who block websites facemash.com true reason, but unfortunately they do not realize the potential that could be a popularity booster tool for the campus itself." He continued: "Sooner or later, there will also be others who make similar sites".
2004
Undeterred, the next semester, precisely on February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg created a new site called "The Facebook" is addressable URL: http://www.thefacebook.com. For this new site, Zuckerberg commented sarcasm: "I think the efforts of the campus who wish to make a medium of exchange of information between the academic community that takes many years was a silly thing. With my site, I could do it just in one week alone ".2
When first launched "The Facebook" is limited in the Harvard campus only. And it's amazing! Within one month of its users already covers more than half of Harvard students at the time. Furthermore, a number of colleagues Zuckerberg joined the team thefacebook.com. They are Eduardo Saverin (business analyst), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic designer), and Chris Hughes.
In March 2004, thefacebook.com began to spread to several other campuses in the city of Boston, U.S. and also to a number of famous campus such as Stanford, Columbia, Yale, and Ivy League. Did not take long, this site has spread its use in almost any campus in the U.S. and Canada. Month of June 2004, Zuckerberg, McCollum and Moskovitz moved its headquarters to Palo Alto, California. Here they also aided also by Adam D'Angelo and Sean Parker.
Mid-2004, thefacebook.com gets its first investment from PayPal cofounder, Pieter Thiel.

2005
In May 2005, received an injection of fresh funds thefacebook.com the joint venture with Accel Partners. Dated August 23, 2005, Thefacebook officially buying their domain name from Aboutface.com for USD 200,000 and since then a fragment of the phrase "the" is not used anymore, so their name officially to facebook.com.
In 2005 also, facebook has expanded the reach of users to the high school students. Still in the same year, a number of universities in Mexico, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand can enjoy the Facebook network.
2006
Beginning in 2006, Facebook was rumored to be acquired by a company at a price of USD 750 million, and even offer jumped to $ 2 billion. But the news is not proven. In April 2006, Facebook received an injection of fresh funds USD 25 million investment from Peter Thiel, Greylock Partners, and Meritech Capital Partners. In May the same year began to crawl up the continent of Asia through India. In the mid-year, gilliran Israel and Germany. Finally, on 11 September 2006, Facebook changed the registration status to be "free to join" for all owners of valid email addresses worldwide.
2007
Month of September 2007, Microsoft announced it had bought 1.6% stake in Facebook valued at USD 15 billion. In taking stock is also covered by the agreement that Microsoft has the right to put their ads on Facebook. Looking at this step a number of other giant players like Google, Viacom, Friendster also expressed their interest to invest in Facebook. Earlier in 2006, Yahoo! has been offering acquisition bid valued at USD 1 billion. November 2007, a Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing invested $ 60 million worth of Facebook.
2008
In August 2008, Business Week magazine reported a number of others have joined Facebook, so invest in the stock value is estimated to range between $ 3.75 Free billion to $ 5 billion.
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