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zuckerberg begins to write about facebook
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facebook is put out on the internet
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March 2004: Facebook expands to MIT, Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern University, Stanford University, Dartmouth College, Columbia University, and Yale University.
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June 2004: Facebook receives its first investment from Peter Thiel for US$500,000
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June 2004: Facebook moves its base of operations to Palo Alto, California
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December 30, 2004: Facebook achieves its one millionth registered user
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May 26, 2005: Accel Partners invests $13 million into Facebook.
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September 2006: Facebook launches a high school version of the website
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September 26, 2006: Facebook is open to everyone aged 13 and over, and with a valid email address
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Facebook sets up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland
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August 2009: Facebook acquires FriendFeed
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April 19, 2010: Facebook introduces Community Pages, which are Pages that are populated with articles from Wikipedia
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April 21, 2010: Facebook introduces Instant Personalization, starting with Microsoft Docs, Yelp, and Pandora
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October 1, 2010: 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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January 2011: $500 million is invested into Facebook for 1% of the company, placing its worth at $50 billion
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February 2011: Facebook adds new "civil union" option for gay partnerships
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February 2011: Facebook application and content aggregator Pixable estimates that Facebook will host 100 billion photos by summer 2011
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June 2011: Facebook partners with Skype to add video chat.
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September 22, 2011: Facebook launches new UI Timeline in F8 Convention
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October 10, 2011: Facebook launches iPad app
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December 21, 2011: Facebook log in page changes due to Facebook Timeline addition.
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December 22, 2011: Facebook launches its new profile user interface, Facebook Timeline.
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May 2012: Facebook IPO, initial price set at $38 a share, and the stock closed at $38.23 on its first trading day.