IT ALL STARTED IN A DORM ROOM
The social media giant had humble beginnings. It was created in a Harvard University dorm room in 2004 by friends Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes and was originally called Thefacebook.com.
THE FIRST ATTEMPT
But Facebook wasn’t Zuckerberg’s first site. In 2003 he created Facemash, which listed pictures of Harvard students in a ‘hot or not’ type format. This didn’t take off.
WHAT COLOR IS THAT?
The Facebook logo is blue because Zuckerberg is color blind and blue is the hue he can see best.
COLLEGE DROPOUT
After receiving a cash injection of $500,000 in late 2004, Zuckerberg dropped out of university and started up Facebook HQ in Palo Alto, California.
EARLY INVESTORS
Soon enough the money started rolling in, receiving $12.7 million-worth of investments in 2005 and $27.5 million in 2006.
SOARING USERS
Four days after it went live thefacebook.com had just 650 users. Just nine months after the launch, it had nearly one million active users. And less than a year later it changed its name to simply Facebook.com.
FAMOUS FACE
Before a homepage redesign in 2007, Facebook’s front page featured a man’s face, slightly blurred by code. Known as the “Facebook guy” people eventually realized the face in fact belonged to actor Al Pacino.
