Facebook History
Here is my timeline for Facebook's History for Info Tech 10 class. Enjoy!
This timeline is about Facebook's history and where it all started to now.
2003-10-23 00:00:00
Facemash
Facemash, Facebook's predecessor. This website was set up to be like a "hot or not" type website and was opened on this day. He acquired the pictures from many other university students and put them side by side to get other peoples opinions if these people were "hot or not"
2003-10-24 21:07:17
Facemash shut down.
Just a couple days after launch of Facemash. The website gets shut down Harvard executives. Mark faced many charges and was after not allowed to study at Harvard University. Later all charges were removed and he was back to the university.
2004-02-04 00:00:00
Facebook Created
February 4, 2004. Facebook (better known back then as theFacebook) launched for the first time by Mark Zuckerberg and his collage roommates including Eduardo Saverin. It was created for students that studied at the Hardvard University.
2005-09-01 16:15:15
Facebook for High School students
Facebook was now being created for High School students across the world. But the website was an invite only site.
2005-10-01 16:15:15
Facebook starts spreading
Facebook was now starting to spread to universities in the UK. Over twenty-one universities were using Facebook. Facebook was also now eligible for Apple and Microsoft employees.
2005-12-11 16:13:12
Facebook spreads across the world
Facebook was now open to thousands of universities in the world from the UK to Canada bringing the sizes to 2,000+ Schools and 25,000+ universities using Facebook.
2006-09-06 11:48:09
The News Feed
Facebook also announced the new feature called the News Feed. You can see what everyone is up to and lots of other things. It led to many privacy complaints but is now one of Facebook's newest features.
2006-09-06 16:13:12
Facebook now opens to public.
Facebook would now not be restriced to schools only but would now be open to the public. You would need a valid e-mail address and need to be over the age of 13.
2007-05-01 12:49:02
Facebook Platform
Facebook launches Platform. A system for letting developers develop different types of software to put on Facebook, like the games that are on Facebook. One of the companies being Zynga to build games.
2008-04-06 00:00:00
Facebook Chat
Facebook announces their new chat program, allowing friends to chat with each other real time, back and forth for not even a penny. This is one of the most popular features on Facebook.
2010-01-01 23:40:48
Facebook Engineering
Facebook starts Engineering puzzles where user who would like to join the Facebook would have to solve problems on computers that would give them a chance to join the Facebook team.
2011-01-01 23:40:48
Largest Photo Host
Facebook now owns the top spot of the biggest photo host on the internet with around 100 billion photo's hosted on Facebook.
2011-09-01 15:17:41
Facebook introduces a new profile.
Facebook thought it was time to get rid of the old Facebook profile from when it first started. Facebook introduced the Timeline which was a new look people's profiles. A lot of negative response came from this change but it took a couple of months for people to settle in.
2012-10-01 00:00:00
Facebook's new record.
Facebook announces that they finally hit 1 billion users registered. This was a big achievement for them.
2014-10-01 00:00:00
Trending Topics
Facebook rolls out a new feature that was available for all users. It was trending topics to show what was trending all over the world on that day. When you click on it you can get pictures and news articles. Whether it be tech news or big news stories it would show the same thing for everyone.