The Creation of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook

516 Words2 Pages

In theory, on October 2003, Facebook actually started from the idea of Facemash. Facemash uploaded by Mark Zuckerberg was only available for Harvard students where they compared two students and stated whether they were hot or not. Mark was able to upload more student pictures by hacking into the Harvard database where student profiles were contained. However, day’s later outraged students demanded Zuckerberg shut down the site. But one thing was clear, people like to go on the Internet and check out pictures of their friends. What's not clear was that Zuckerberg was also working on another site called HarvardConnection.com for Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra who later sued Mark for allegedly stealing their idea with the creation of Facebook.
Finally, in January 2004, Mark Zuckerberg registered thefacebook.com domain. He mentioned in an article in The Harvard Crimson that he was inspired by the Facemash incident to create Facebook, "It is clear that the technology needed to create a centralized Website is readily available ... the benefits are many." Mark also...

More about The Creation of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook

Open Document