The Story of Facebook

The Story of Facebook — page 3 — a welcome SR o me were facebook com facebook Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your

The Story of Facebook — page 4 — the story of facebook On the afternoon of February 4 2004 Mark Zuckerberg sat down at his desk in the suite he shared with three other Harvard University students A few weeks ear lier the 19-year-old student had registered the domain name for a new Web site He had spent his entire winter break hunched over his com puter in his dorm room designing an online social network for fellow students Now he was ﬁnally ready to launch the new site As his com puter hummed to life amidst the empty en ergy drink cans and crumpled food wrappers Zuckerberg prepared to click the ﬁnal button that would make Thefacebook com live and that would start a web of connections that quickly crisscrossed the campus the country and then the globe built for success

The Story of Facebook — page 5 — b u i l t f o r s u c c e s s 6 p a g e the story of facebook chapter one Mark Zuckerberg arrived at Harvard University in 2002 with a reputation as a computer whiz He had been writing code since he was about 10 years old when he devel oped games to play on his parents home computer In high school he worked with a friend to create a software program that person alized music playlists according to a listener’s preferences Microsoft had report edly offered almost 1 million for the technology and Zuckerberg and his friend had turned it down a fact that was well known among students on Harvard’s Cambridge Massachusetts campus Zuckerberg a computer science major wasn’t interested in programming to get rich It was a hobby something that came naturally to the gifted youngster and that attracted attention on campus Students appreciated the Course Match site he developed as a sophomore because it allowed them to select their classes based on the other students already enrolled in them so that they could be with friends The Facemash site he created that same year however was not so widely adored The site placed photos of Harvard students side by side and asked view ers to rank them according to looks After launching Facemash Zuckerberg was summoned before the university’s administrative board and put on probation College Connections

The Story of Facebook — page 6 — Mark Zuckerberg pictured here at Harvard in May 2004 was born and raised in New York facebook

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