Most of us allocate part of our worthy time daily on a trendy website named facebook.com, which is one of the top websites ranked by traffic today. Let us all make an effort to know about the face behind facebook and get inspired by the founder of facebook. Mark Zuckerberg, a harvard student, the creator of Facebook, reformed his skills into a business that costs billions. He is a successful businessperson and earned enormous wealth from his efforts.
His drive to facebook started in his second year of college, when Mark and his three friends created a website named Facemash. Facemash is the ancestor of Facebook. This website invited his classmates to compare their official photos to decide who was 'hot' or 'not'. It seems he hacked the University computers to get those photos. The site only lasted for few days until the university found about the site and closed it. But this incident earned him status among the Harvard students as a skillful programmer. Mark expressed in an article in The Harvard Crimson that he was inspired to make Facebook from the incident of Facemash.
Ultimately Mark Zuckerberg launched TheFacebook.com in February 2004 as an internal system for the students at the harvard university to connect with each other i.e only those people with a verified college e-mail address were allowed to sign up. Then FB spreads to some top universities in USA, by allowing them membership to the website. In June 2004 Facebook moved it's office with headquarters to Palo Alto, California and purchased the domain name facebook.com dropping 'The' from the existing domain name. Then Facebook opens its doors to High school students. The High school students dont have email addresses to verify which high school they are from, So Facebook allowed the students to verify one another. Later Facebook is open to employees of certain companies. At last anyone with any e-mail address is allowed to join Facebook. In
October 2007, Microsoft acquired equity stake in facebook. In the mean time FB reached
several milestones both in technical and business perspective.
Mark Zuckerberg is named
Time magazine's Person of the year 2010. Finally in
May 2012, facebook went public.
Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg who created an energetic and passionate virtual environment which made billions of people to connect each other, share information, develop social relationship among one another through a painless mode, to be informed of the happenings in the world on top of individuals interest and to bring life style to the next level of innovation and entertainment.
