February 4th

On this day - February 4th 2004 - Facebook is founded 

Love it or hate it; today Facebook celebrates 11 years since its foundation. Initially, the first social site that founder Mark Zuckerberg built at Harvard was Facemash, a page where two photos were pulled up and the user would choose the "hotter" person. The site used hacked images from Harvards private dormitory ID images and was quickly reported to the Harvard administration. The page managed 450 visitors and over 22000 photo views in the first 4 hours. On February 4th 2004 Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook". Six days after the launch three Harvard students came forward claiming Zuckerberg mislead them into believing that he would help them build their own social network site called the Harvard Connection. In 2008 they settled a lawsuit against Zuckerberg for 1.2 million shares of the company (300 million USD at the time). Initially Facebook was limited to registered students at Harvard but expanded to other colleges and later the entire world. Facebook have had some controversies, but it is the biggest social network on the web. You can like Facebook or not but you cannot deny that it has changed the world and how we communicate and connect with each other. 

Facebook has changed since one of the first versions