Facebook turned 15 today. Instead of singing "Happy Birthday" let's take a trip to machine Wayback to see how things have changed on Facebook.com over the years.
Before the idea of naming Mark Zuckerberg came before he even went to Harvard University in 2004, "Face book" was a pamphlet containing pictures of all students along with their names. The purpose of the booklet 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 Facebook's Facebook login page changed 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's name. Zuckerberg never wanted it, according to me information, but since bought “Facebook.com” in 2005 and 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 made its first major change to 2007. It was then that Facebook eventually ceased to be an exclusive social club for students, and opened his doors for everyone:
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.