Timeline of Facebook

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  • 2004

    Harvard

    Facebook was launched in February of this year by a Harvard sophomore known as Mark Zuckerberg. At the time, it was known as TheFacebook.


    Facebook get its first big investors as Venture capitalist Peter Thiel sees promise in the new company and invests $500,000 in Facebook. Sean Parker, the founder of Napster, becomes Facebook's president.


    Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss claim Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook from them and sue the company.

  • 2005

    The Journey of 'Facebook' began...

    - Purchased facebook.com domain for $200k and dropped “the”. - Facebook rebuffs an offer from media giant Viacom to buy the site for $75 million.

  • 2006

    Facebook started getting offers

    - Yahoo offers to buy Facebook for $1 billion, Facebook rejects the offer.

  • 2007

    Big companies see potential

    - Microsoft buys a 1.4 percent stake in the company, valuing Facebook at $15 billion.

  • 2008

    Millions Reached

    - Facebook reaches 100 million active users.

  • 2009

    Largest social networking site in the world

    - Facebook overtakes Myspace to become the Internet's largest social network.

  • 2010

    Movie about Facebook?

    - ‘The Social Network’, a movie about Facebook is released. - Facebook roles out the popular Like button, which users utilize to denote content they appreciate.

  • 2011

    Timeline makes it break through

    - Facebook introduces Timeline, a controversial feature that revamps user's profiles into a streamline of events of their documented experiences on the social network.

  • 2012

    900!

    - Facebook reaches 900 million active users.

  • Present

    What's next?

    - The biggest social media platform on earth right now. What’s next?

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