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Mark Zuckerburg created a website called Facemash that was comparable to the website Hot or Not. The website had a collection of pictures of Harvard students and would put two pictures side-by-side and give the choice to pick who was "hotter". Zuckerburg did this by hacking into Harvard's computer network and taking the pictures from students' ID pictures. The website had 450 visitors and 22,000 photo views within its first four hours online.
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Mark Zuckerburg was inspired by an article about Facemash in The Harvard Crimson.
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Mark Zuckerburg expanded from just Harvard to allow students from Stanford, Columbia, and Yale to register.
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Mark Zuckerburg purchased the domain "facebook.com" in 2005 for $200,000 and changed the name from Thefacebook to just Facebook.
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High school networks were able to join Facebook but required an invitation to join.
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Anyone age 13 and over was now able to create an account.
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Facebook's number of active users grew 178% throughout the month.
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During the week ending March 13, 2010, Facebook received more visitors than Google.
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Facebook announces AppCenter which sells applications that connect to Facebook.
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Facebook's initial public offering was $38 per stock valuing the company at $104 billion
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Facebook announced their graph search which would give users a precise answer rather than links through the data on Facebook.