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Mark Zuckerberg was born. -
At 12 years old he made his first messaging system called Zucknet, so his father could talk to his employees easily while at work. -
Mark created Synapse in high school, a music app that would help people find artists based on their music taste. He was offered 1 million dollars for the app by Microsoft and AOL but decided to turn down the offer and keep it free. -
In 2002 Mark Zuckerberg went to college for the first time, studying computer science and psychology. -
Mark Zuckerberg met his wife Priscilla Chan while waiting in a line to use the bathroom at a Harvard University party.
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Mark Zuckerberg created the first version of Facebook, a website where Harvard students could connect with each other. -
Mark Zuckerberg talked about his hopes for TheFacebook on his first ever interview, hoping gaining attention from people who were watching it of them to check out TheFacebook -
Mark changed TheFacebooks name to Facebook. -
Facebook went from 12 million users to 50 million, which would soon double up to 100 million by the end of 2008. -
He was named the worlds youngest self made billionaire. -
Facebook reached 1 billion users, and it went public and valued at 104 billion dollars. -
Mark Zuckerberg bought Instagram for around 1 billion dollars. -
Mark Zuckerberg buys WhatsApp for 19 billion. -
Mark and his wife started the Chan Zuckerberg initiative, a philanthropy to build new technologies to help science and education. -
Mark changed Facebooks name to Meta.