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Mark Zuckerberg launched "TheFacebook" for Harvard Students
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August 2005 saw the website name changed from 'TheFacebook.com' with the domain 'Facebook.com' purchased for $200,000
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September 2006 Facebook went beyond educational institutions and allowed anyone above 13 with a registered email address to join
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First major redesign added newsfeeds to the homepage and a mini-feed to user's profiles
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Microsoft announced they had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million
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Facebook launched the chat feature for users in 2008
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Real-Time stream added to the user's homepage
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In June 2010 Facebook hit 1 trillion page views
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Facebook chat got a revamp and changed to messenger, allowing users to talk, video chat and call one another privately.
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2009 saw both celebrities and businesses making pages for fans and customers to 'like' their page and interact with them
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A real-time activity tracker was added in 2011 so users could see exactly what their friends were doing on Facebook and when
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2011 was also the year that Facebook introduced their video chat feature
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The introduction of the Follow button allowed users to 'subscribe' to public content without needing to add people as a friend
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Facebook buys Instagram for 1 billion dollars
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Facebook launched App Centre, a place to download different apps and games for users to play on the site
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Facebook's newsroom introduced clickable hashtags to follow popular trends and discussions
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January of 2017 saw Facebook follow the trends of Snapchat and Instagram by introducing Facebook Stories
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Facebook announced they had 2 billion users on the site in June 2017
