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Mark Zuckerberg releases Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook. It was described as a Harvard University version of Hot or Not.
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History Mark Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook".
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Three Harvard seniors, accused Zuckerberg of stealing their ideas for an intended social network website called HarvardConnection, and of using their ideas for TheFacebook.
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Sean Parker (founder of Napster) became the company's president.
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Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin form Thefacebook.com LLC, a partnership
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Facebook receives its first investment from Peter Thiel for US$500,000.
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Facebook moves its base of operations to Palo Alto, California.
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Accel Partners invests $13 million into Facebook.
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The company changed the name from TheFacebook to just Facebook after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.
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A leaked cash flow statement shows that Facebook had a net loss of $3.63 million for the 2005 fiscal year.
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Facebook discusses with Yahoo! about the latter possibly acquiring the former, for $1 billion.
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Facebook launches a high school version of the website
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The Social Network, a film about the beginnings of Facebook directed by David Fincher is released. The film is met with widespread critical acclaim as well as commercial success; however, Mark Zuckerberg says that the film is a largely inaccurate account of what happened.
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Facebook launches iPad app.
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Facebook announced that all of the pages will be automatically upgraded to its Timeline view on March 30, 2012.
