Facebook turned 15 today. Instead of singing "Happy Birthday" let's do one taxidi in the Wayback Machine to see how things have changed at Facebook.com over the years.
Before the idea for the name came to Mark Zuckerberg before he even went to harvard university in 2004, “Face book” was a brochure that had the pictures of all the students along with their names. The goal of the brochure was to get to know each other.
Now, of course, Facebook is the way we can avoid face-to-face contact with other people.
Let's face it: we're all on FaceBook. Below is an image by technologist Natalie Rojas "Faces of Facebook"
Below we will see how the page has changed connectionof Facebook over the years.
When it was officially launched on 4 February 2004, most of us were using AIM. Zuckerberg came with Facebook. The first FaceBook was on thefacebook .com domain.
The homepage mentioned, "A Mark Zuckerberg Production" while the "Info" page is below:
When Sean Parker came to Facebook, he urged Zuckerberg to remove the “The” from the company name. Zuckerberg reportedly never wanted it, but since he bought “Facebook.com” in 2005, he has used it.
Initially, the appearance of the site remained unchanged. But later that year, the company removed "The" from its name:
In 2004 FaceBook was a social networking site for colleges, but by 2005, as you can see below, there were "two FaceBooks: one for college and one for high school.
The social network held its first major change in 2007. It was then that Facebook finally ceased to be an exclusive social club for students, and opened its doors to all:
When Mark Zuckerberg became a billionaire, 2008 decided to remove "a Mark Zuckerberg production" from the bottom of the site:
From 2009, the changes to the page were simpler, the company only uses it images and link forms. See pictures:
You don't like Facebook being arguably the most popular "thing" in the history of mankind. At least until the next big thing comes up to replace it.