Who Built Facebook Website and How It Became a Global Phenomenon

Mark Zuckerberg, a sophomore at Harvard University, created a website called "Facemash" in 2003, which allowed users to compare the photos of two students and vote on which one was more attractive.

This project gained popularity, but also generated controversy and was eventually shut down by the university. Zuckerberg used this experience to learn from his mistakes and eventually created a new website called "Thefacebook" in 2004.

Zuckerberg's goal was to create a social networking site exclusively for Harvard students, and he was joined by his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.

Thefacebook quickly gained popularity and expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, and eventually to the rest of the world.

Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in 2004, inspired by an editorial in The Harvard Crimson about the site "FaceMash" that allowed users to rate pictures of Harvard students for attractiveness.

The site "FaceMash" was shut down by Harvard within days due to copyright and security concerns, but it sparked the idea for a new site where students could connect with each other using their ".edu" email addresses and photos.

Mark Zuckerberg began writing the code for the new site in January 2004, and the site was launched under the URL thefacebook.com.

Within 24 hours of launch, around 1,200 students had signed up, and within one month, around half of all Harvard undergraduates had a profile.

The site was an immediate hit, and it quickly expanded to other Ivy League schools, eventually opening up to anyone over the age of 13 in 2006.

Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of school to manage Facebook full-time, and the site continued to grow, adding new features and services, including tagging, marketplace, gifts, and video chat.

It took Mark Zuckerberg just two weeks to develop the initial version of Facebook, according to his interview with Business Insider in 2016.

Facebook's popularity grew rapidly, and by the end of 2004, the site had over 1 million registered users, with the name changing to Facebook.com in August 2005.

In January 2004, Mark Zuckerberg began writing the code for the new site that would eventually become Facebook.

The inspiration for Facebook came from an editorial in The Harvard Crimson on Facebook's controversial forerunner, "FaceMash."

It attracted 22,000 views in just 4 hours, but was shut down by Harvard within days due to policy violations.

Mark Zuckerberg managed to escape expulsion, but the experience helped spark the idea for a new site – a social networking site where students at Harvard could use their ".edu" email addresses and photos to connect with other students.

Facebook was subsequently founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes – all of whom were students at Harvard University.

The site was launched under the URL thefacebook.com and became an immediate hit, with around 1,200 students signing up within 24 hours of launch.

Within one month, around half of all Harvard undergraduates had a profile.

It took Mark Zuckerberg just two weeks to develop the initial version of Facebook.

By the end of 2004, The Facebook had over 1 million registered users.

The site opened up to anyone over the age of 13 in 2006.

Mark Zuckerberg began writing the code for Facebook in January 2004, just a month after the controversy surrounding "FaceMash" was shut down by Harvard.

Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, all of whom were students at Harvard University.

It took Zuckerberg only two weeks to develop the initial version of Facebook, which would later host billions of users around the world and dominate the internet.

The site was initially created as a Harvard-specific social networking site, where students could opt-in by creating an account.

By the end of 2004, The Facebook had over 1 million registered users, and by 2005, it was known as Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of school to manage Facebook full-time as it grew and expanded its services to include tagging, marketplace, gifts, video chat, and more.

The site opened up to anyone over the age of 13 in 2006, and Facebook continued to spread worldwide, reaching UK universities the following month.