Happy Birthday Facebook!
Thefacebook site opened on February 4, 2004 and was available only to students at Harvard University. For ten years, the social network has lost the article, reached 1.366 billion active users per month, and Mark Zuckerberg at 23 became the youngest billionaire on the planet.
Sophomore Mark Zuckerberg in 2003 wrote the site Facemash. Users had to choose which of two people is more likeable. Photo Zuckerberg stole from the protected sections of the Harvard University network. In two hours of work on Facemash, four hundred and fifty people came in and looked at photos twenty-two thousand times. The site was closed by the Harvard administration. A year later, on February 4, 2004, Mark opened Thefacebook.
Initially, Thefacebook was available only to Harvard students, but a month later the audience was expanded to Stanford, Columbia University and Yale. Later, The Ivy League, Boston, New York, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other universities in Canada and the United States ended up on Thefacebook. September 26, 2006 access to the network was opened for every Internet user over 13 years old.
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In 2010, the cost of Facebook was $ 41 billion, which made it the third most expensive after Google and Amazon. In 2011, this figure rose to 50 billion. The company made an initial public offering on May 18, 2012.
Facebook is the largest social network in the world by the number of active users. At least once a month, 1.366 billion people enter the network, which is two times more than that of the closest pursuer - Qzone, which is popular in China. The company's revenue in 2014 amounted to 3.85 billion dollars.
Sophomore Mark Zuckerberg in 2003 wrote the site Facemash. Users had to choose which of two people is more likeable. Photo Zuckerberg stole from the protected sections of the Harvard University network. In two hours of work on Facemash, four hundred and fifty people came in and looked at photos twenty-two thousand times. The site was closed by the Harvard administration. A year later, on February 4, 2004, Mark opened Thefacebook.
Initially, Thefacebook was available only to Harvard students, but a month later the audience was expanded to Stanford, Columbia University and Yale. Later, The Ivy League, Boston, New York, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other universities in Canada and the United States ended up on Thefacebook. September 26, 2006 access to the network was opened for every Internet user over 13 years old.
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In 2010, the cost of Facebook was $ 41 billion, which made it the third most expensive after Google and Amazon. In 2011, this figure rose to 50 billion. The company made an initial public offering on May 18, 2012.
Facebook is the largest social network in the world by the number of active users. At least once a month, 1.366 billion people enter the network, which is two times more than that of the closest pursuer - Qzone, which is popular in China. The company's revenue in 2014 amounted to 3.85 billion dollars.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/376159/
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