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Founded as 'Facesmash' by Mark Zuckerberg and his roomate and friends at Harvard University
Founded on Febuary 4, 2004 by mark Zuckerberg and his roomate and friends. -
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The Growth of Facebook
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Facebook became open to other US universities
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Facebook expanded onto universities in the UK
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Facebook was open to anyone over the age of 13
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Facebook allowed over 100,000 business pages to promote themselves and inform others about there business
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Microsoft announced they purchased 1.6% of facebook for $240 million giving facebook a total value of about $15 milllion
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Facebook announced they were setting up their first international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.
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Facebook begun to invite users to become beta testers after you pass a question based selection process
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Facebook became the largest online photo host and had over 100 billion photos posted by summer
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Facebook became acessable on cell phones and over 350 million users used it causing facebook traffic
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Facebook filed for a initial public offering and negiotiated a share price
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Facebook announced it was introducing clickable hashtags to help users follow trending discussions, or search what others are talking about on a topic
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Facebook announced they would be buying the messaging company Whatsapp for $19 billion
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Announced they have 2 million active advertisers that are mostly small business'
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Used by over 1.4 million people around the world.
