Year Facebook Was Founded
Year Facebook Was Founded
In February 2004 Mr Zuckerberg introduced "The facebook", as it was initially known; the name extracted from the sheets of paper distributed to freshmen, profiling trainees and also staff. Within 24 hours, 1,200 Harvard students had signed up, and also after one month, over half of the undergraduate populace had a profile.
The network was quickly included various other Boston universities, the Ivy Organization and also eventually all United States colleges. It ended up being Facebook.com in August 2005 after the address was acquired for $200,000. US senior high schools could join from September 2005, after that it began to spread out worldwide, getting to UK colleges the list below month.
As of September 2006, the network was extended beyond schools to any individual with a signed up email address. The website continues to be cost-free to sign up with, and also makes a profit via marketing earnings. Yahoo and also Google are among firms which have actually shared interest in a buy-out, with rumoured figures of around $2bn (₤ 975m) being talked about. Mr Zuckerberg has thus far chosen not to offer.
The website's attributes have continuouslied develop throughout 2007. Individuals could now offer gifts to friends, message cost-free classified advertisements as well as develop their very own applications - graffiti as well as Scrabble are specifically popular.
This month the company revealed that the number of signed up customers had reached 30 million, making it the largest social-networking website with an education and learning focus.
Earlier in the year there were rumours that Prince William had signed up, but it was later revealed to be a mere impostor. The MP David Miliband, the radio DJ Jo Whiley, the star Orlando Bloom, the artist Tracey Emin and also the owner of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, are among verified high-profile participants.
This month officials banned a flash-mob-style water battle in Hyde Park, arranged through Facebook, as a result of public safety worries. And there was further controversy at Oxford as trainees realised that university authorities were examining their Facebook accounts.
The lawful instance versus Facebook dates back to September 2004, when Divya Narendra, and the siblings Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, that founded the social-networking website ConnectU, implicated Mr Zuckerberg of duplicating their suggestions as well as coding. Mr Zuckerberg had worked as a computer system designer for them when they were all at Harvard before Facebook was produced.
The case was dismissed due to a triviality in March 2007 however without a judgment.