FaceMash, Facebook's ancestor, opened in 2003. Created by Mark Zuckerberg, he composed the product for the Facemash site when he was in his second year of school. The site was set up as a kind of "hot or not" amusement for Harvard understudies. The site enabled guests to think about two female understudy pictures one next to the other and let them choose who was hot or not.[8]
While composing the product, Mark Zuckerberg composed the accompanying web journal entries:[9]
I'm somewhat inebriated, not going to mislead anybody. So imagine a scenario where it's not even 10 pm and it's a Tuesday night. What? The Kirkland quarters facebook is open on my work area and a portion of these individuals have lovely horrendiedous facebook pics. I nearly need to put a portion of these countenances alongside photos of some ranch creatures and have individuals vote on which is more alluring.
— 2:49 pm
Yea, it's on. I'm not precisely beyond any doubt how the homestead creatures will fit into this entire thing (you can't generally ever make certain with cultivate animals...), yet I like looking at two individuals together.
— 11:10 am
As indicated by The Harvard Crimson, Facemash utilized "photographs ordered from the online facebooks of nine Houses, putting two alongside each other at once and requesting that clients pick the "more sweltering" person".[8] Facemash pulled in 450 guests and 22,000 photograph sees in its initial four hours online.[10]
The site was immediately sent to a few grounds aggregate rundown servers, yet was closed down a couple of days after the fact by the Harvard organization. Zuckerberg confronted removal and was accused by the organization of break of security, disregarding copyrights, and damaging individual protection. Eventually, the charges were dropped.[8] Zuckerberg developed this underlying undertaking that semester by making a social report device in front of a workmanship history last test of the year. He transferred all craftsmanship pictures to a site, every one of which was highlighted with a relating remarks segment, at that point imparted the site to his colleagues, and individuals began sharing notes.[11]
On October 25, 2010, business visionary and investor Rahul Jain unloaded FaceMash.com to an obscure purchaser for $30,201.[12][13]
A "face book" is an understudy catalog including photographs and fundamental information.[10] In 2003, there were no widespread online facebooks at Harvard, with just paper sheets distributed[14] and private online directories.[8][15] Zuckerberg told the Crimson that "Everybody's been rambling about an all inclusive face book inside Harvard. [...] I believe it's sort of senseless that it would take the University a few years to get around to it. I can show improvement over they can, and I can do it in a week."[15] In January 2004, Zuckerberg started composing code for another site, known as "TheFacebook", with the motivation originating from a publication in the Crimson about Facemash, expressing that "Obviously the innovation expected to make an incorporated Website is promptly accessible ... the advantages are many."[9] On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg propelled "TheFacebook", initially situated at thefacebook.com.[16]
Zuckerberg additionally expressed his goal to make an all inclusive site that can associate individuals around the college. As indicated by his flat mate, Dustin Moskovitz, "When Mark completed the site, he told two or three companions ... at that point one of them proposed putting it on the Kirkland House internet mailing list, which was ... three hundred individuals." Moskovitz kept on saying that, "Before the night's over, we were ... currently viewing the enrollment procedure. Inside twenty-four hours, we had somewhere close to twelve hundred and fifteen hundred registrants."[17]
Only six days after the dispatch of the site, three Harvard University seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, blamed Zuckerberg for deliberately deceptive them into trusting that he would enable them to assemble an informal organization called HarvardConnection.com, however rather utilizing their plan to construct a contending product.[18] The three whined to the Crimson, and the daily paper started an examination. Zuckerberg thought about the examination so he utilized TheFacebook.com to discover individuals in the site who distinguished themselves as individuals from the Crimson. He analyzed a past filled with fizzled logins to check whether any of the Crimson individuals have ever entered an erroneous secret word into TheFacebook.com. In the cases in which they had neglected to sign in, Mark attempted to utilize them to get to the Crimson individuals' Harvard email records, and he was effective in getting to two of them. At last, three Crimson individuals documented a claim against Zuckerberg which was later settled.[18][19]
Enrollment was at first confined to understudies of Harvard University. Inside the primary month, the greater part the undergrad populace at Harvard was enlisted on the service.[20] Zuckerberg was before long participated in the advancement of the site by Eduardo Saverin (business angles), Dustin Moskovitz (developer), Andrew McCollum (visual craftsman), and Chris Hughes. In March 2004, Facebook extended to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale.[2] This development proceeded when it opened to all Ivy League and Boston-zone schools. It bit by bit achieved most colleges in the United States and Canada.[21][22][23] Facebook was fused in the mid year of 2004, and the business person Sean Parker, who had been casually prompting Zuckerberg, turned into the organization's president.[24] In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of activities to Palo Alto, California.[2] The organization dropped 'The' from its name in the wake of buying the space name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.[25]
By December 2005, Facebook had 6 million users.[26]
Add up to dynamic users[N 1]
Date Users
(in millions) Days later Monthly growth[N 2]
February 4, 2004 0 — —
August 26, 2008 100[27] 1,665 178.38%
April 8, 2009 200[28] 225 13.33%
September 15, 2009 300[29] 160 9.38%
February 5, 2010 400[30] 143 6.99%
July 21, 2010 500[31] 166 4.52%
January 5, 2011 600[32][N 3] 168 3.57%
May 30, 2011 700[33] 145 3.45%
September 22, 2011 800[34] 115 3.73%
April 24, 2012 900[35] 215 1.74%
September 14, 2012 1,000[36] 143 2.33%
Walk 31, 2013 1,110[37] 198 1.5%
December 31, 2013 1,230[38] 275 0.97%
December 31, 2014 1,390[39] 365 0.64%
December 31, 2015 1,590[40] 365 0.55%
December 31, 2016 1,860[41] 366 0.47%
On October 1, 2005, Facebook extended to twenty-one colleges in the United Kingdom and others around the globe. Facebook propelled a secondary school form in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called the following sensible step.[42] around then, secondary school systems required a solicitation to join.[43] Facebook later extended enrollment qualification to representatives of a few organizations, including Apple Inc. what's more, Microsoft.[44] On December 11, 2005, colleges in Australia and New Zealand were added to the Facebook organize, bringing its size to 2,000+ universities and 25,000 + secondary schools all through the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006 to everybody matured 13 and more established with a substantial email address.[6][7]
Late in 2007, Facebook had 100,000 business pages, enabling organizations to pull in potential clients and tell about themselves. These began as gathering pages, yet another idea called organization pages was planned.[45]
In October 2008, Facebook declared that it would set up its worldwide home office in Dublin, Ireland.[46]
In 2010, Facebook started to welcome clients to end up beta analyzers in the wake of passing an inquiry and-reply based determination process,[47] and an arrangement of Facebook Engineering Puzzles where clients would take care of computational issues which gave them a chance to be procured by Facebook.[48]
As of February 2011, Facebook had turned into the biggest online photograph have, being refered to by Facebook application and online photograph aggregator Pixable as hoping to have 100 billion photographs by summer 2011.[49] As of October 2011, more than 350 million clients got to Facebook through their cell phones, representing 33% of all Facebook traffic.[50]
On March 12, 2012, Yahoo recorded suit in a U.S. government court against Facebook weeks before the booked Facebook first sale of stock. In its court recording, Yahoo said that Facebook had encroached on ten of its licenses covering promoting, security controls and long range informal communication. Yippee had undermined to sue Facebook multi month before the documenting, demanding that the informal community permit its licenses. A representative for Facebook issued an announcement saying "We're baffled that Yahoo, a long-term business accomplice of Facebook and an organization that has considerably profit by its relationship with Facebook, has chosen to fall back on litigation".[51] The claim guarantees that Yahoo's licenses cover essential informal communication thoughts, for example, modifying site clients' encounters to their requirements, including that the licenses cover methods for focusing on promotions to individual users.[52] In 2012, Facebook App Center, an online portable store, was taken off. The store at first had 500 Facebook applications which were generally games.[53]
On April 24, 2014, Facebook and Storyful declared another element called FB Newswire.[54]
Financials
Access to Facebook base camp complex in Menlo Park, California
Facebook's previous base camp in downtown Palo Alto, California
Starting subsidizing
Facebook was at first fused as a Florida LLC. For the initial couple of months after its dispatch in February 2004, the expenses for the site activities for thefacebook.com were paid for by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, who had taken value stakes in the organization. The site additionally ran a couple of ads to meet its working costs.[55]
In the first place holy messenger venture
In the late spring of 2004, investor Peter Thiel made a $500,000 holy messenger interest in the interpersonal organization Facebook for 10.2% of the organization and joined Facebook's board. This was the first outside interest in Facebook.[56][57][58]
In his book The Facebook Effect, Kirkpatrick diagrams the account of how Thiel came to make