Mark Zuckerberg who Invented Facebook App
Perhaps, this time Facebook is a social media with the largest users in the world. It is estimated that around 1.3 billion active users each month from data investor.fb.com and continue to grow. The success of Facebook cannot be separated from its inventor's hard work, Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook was first launched from his dorm room at Harvard University when he was a student at the time. Facebook was first created on February 24, 2004.
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First Invention of Facebook
The discovery of Facebook-inspired from Mark Zuckerberg School before college at Harvard and he graduated in 2002 from the school. In the school, there was a directory where students had their own pages and could publish some sort of photo directory and experienced during school. The students could get to know each other. And the directory became known as 'The Facebook'. This is that later became an inspiration for Mark Zuckerberg to create the Facebook app.
The forerunner to make Facebook when Mark Zuckerberg created a site called facemash.com that contained photos of Harvard students and then compared it and asked the user to choose which one was interesting. This made the internet network at Harvard almost paralyzed and then the campus turned off Mark Zuckerberg site. He then got sanctioned and almost expelled for his actions that hacked the campus server.
Mark Zuckerberg then officially launched Facebook on February 24, 2004, in his dorm room with the name thefacebook.com. To create a Facebook, he was assisted by some of his dorm friends namely Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, and Chris Hughes. With the help of his friends, Mark Zuckerberg then tried to do promotions to introduce Facebook to his friends at Harvard. A few months later, the development of Facebook increased until made Mark open Facebook membership in several other campuses in America.
Invest in Facebook
The rapid development of Facebook then attracted entrepreneur, Sean Parker who once created The Napster to invest in developing Facebook. Then, the official Facebook renamed by the name of Facebook.com. Facebook then officially became a company and then based in Palo Alto, United States where Mark Zuckerberg as CEO of Facebook. The entry investment from Peter Thiel who was one of the founders of PayPal made Facebook growing rapidly. Mark Zuckerberg became media attention when he turned down an offer from Yahoo to buy Facebook for 1 billion dollars.
Previously, many other companies like Friendster and Microsoft wanted to buy Facebook but rejected by Mark Zuckerberg. This incident then made the value of Facebook increased to 15 billion US dollars. The visitor traffic on Facebook is increasing rapidly from year to year. Facebook is also included in the top three webs in America after Google and Amazon. Mark Zuckerberg became a new millionaire after Facebook managed to reap hundreds of millions of users. Mark Zuckerberg later became one of the richest youth in the world thanks to Facebook.