The Origin Of Facebook
Facebook is now one of the most popular social networking systems for students and working adults across the world but at one point this wasn't the case. Facebook has a long history that was started in 2004 when it was founded by Mark Zuckerberg as an online meeting place for students at the prestigious Harvard University. Originally the site was called The Facebook (named after the paper facebooks that describe members of the college community so that incoming students have the ability to easily learn about the other people on campus).
Due to the success of Facebook, it expanded to several other colleges. Some of these colleges included Boston College and all of the Ivy League colleges. When the site continued to gain popularity, everyone with an university email address was allowed to join.
With The Face book growing in popularity, the owners decided to drop the article the from the name of the site, simply calling it Facebook. The domain was purchased for $200,000 American.
In 2006 high schools were finally allowed to join the Facebook network. Finally, in late 2006, anyone over the age of 13 was allowed to join the Facebook network.
From that point Facebook has expanded as to what it is known as today, one of the largest social networking websites in existence.
