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Harvard classmates Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes launch the first attempt of what we know to today as "Facebook. At the time, it was known as Thefacebook and only used by Harvard students.
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Facebook expands to MIT, Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern University, Stanford University, Dartmouth College, Columbia University, and Yale University.[8]
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Facebook is open to everyone aged 13 and over, and with a valid email address.
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Microsoft sees potential in fast growing social media site and invets 1.4% stake in the company. This places Facebooks value at $15 billion.
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Facebook user numbers overtakes the number of current social media extroardinare, MySpace.
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Facebook the movie premiers. It was Oscar-nominated and traces the history of Facebook development.
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Public offering intially proposed.
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900 million users registered on Facebook.
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FB on NASDAQ Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) shares go on the stock market. The Facebook IPO is priced at $42, valuing the Menlo Park, Calif.-based company at $114 billion, or roughly eight times it was worth when notable investors first jumped in on the social networking craze.
