Year Facebook Was Founded
In February 2004 Mr Zuckerberg introduced "The facebook", as it was originally recognized; the name extracted from the sheets of paper dispersed to freshmen, profiling trainees and personnel. Within 1 Day, 1,200 Harvard trainees had subscribed, and also after one month, over fifty percent of the undergraduate populace had a profile.
The network was promptly reached various other Boston colleges, the Ivy League and at some point all US colleges. It came to be Facebook.com in August 2005 after the address was acquired for $200,000. United States secondary schools can subscribe from September 2005, then it began to spread worldwide, reaching UK universities the list below month.
As of September 2006, the network was expanded beyond universities to any individual with a registered email address. The website stays complimentary to join, as well as earns a profit through marketing revenue. Yahoo and also Google are amongst companies which have shared interest in a buy-out, with rumoured figures of around $2bn (₤ 975m) being talked about. Mr Zuckerberg has until now refused to offer.
The website's features have actually continued to create during 2007. Individuals can now offer gifts to buddies, post free classified advertisements as well as create their own applications - graffiti and Scrabble are particularly preferred.
This month the firm revealed that the number of registered users had actually reached 30 million, making it the biggest social-networking site with an education emphasis.
Previously in the year there were rumours that Prince William had registered, yet it was later on disclosed to be a plain impostor. The MP David Miliband, the radio DJ Jo Whiley, the actor Orlando Flower, the musician Tracey Emin and also the owner of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, are among verified prominent members.
This month authorities outlawed a flash-mob-style water fight in Hyde Park, arranged through Facebook, as a result of public safety and security concerns. And also there was additionally conflict at Oxford as students became aware that university authorities were examining their Facebook profiles.
The lawful case against Facebook go back to September 2004, when Divya Narendra, and also the siblings Cameron and also Tyler Winklevoss, that founded the social-networking site ConnectU, implicated Mr Zuckerberg of replicating their ideas as well as coding. Mr Zuckerberg had worked as a computer programmer for them when they were all at Harvard before Facebook was produced.
The case was dismissed due to a formality in March 2007 however without a judgment.