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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on 14 May 1984 in white plains, New York. Home town of Mark Zuckerberg is Dobbs Ferry, the U.S. , Currently lives in Palo Alto, California, U.S. Mark Zuckerberg Completed his High School study at Ardsley High School, Zuckerberg. While studying in high school he excelled in classes, Later Zuckerberg transferred to the exclusive private school Phillips Exeter Academy, in New Hampshire. Here he won many prizes in science and classical studies. He began using computers and writing software in middle school. First, he learned BASIC Programming from his father in 1990 and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately. Currently he Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software in middle school. His father taught him Atari BASIC Programming in the 1990s, and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately. Currently, he is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur, He was the co-founder of Facebook but currently operates Facebook as its chairman and chief executive officer, he also owns social networks, Whatsapp, Messenger, and Instagram. In 2016 he the fifth richest person around the world.Roll Of Mark Elliot Zuckerberg In Success Of Facebook
While Mark Zuckerberg was studying in the college a site was built by one of the roommates of Mark Zuckerberg only for fun. The site operated by roommate only for a weekend an site was shut down on Monday morning. The reason behind the shutting down of the site is, the popularity of the site was overwhelmed.You Must Also Read:- Offices Of Facebook Around The world
On the bases of their knowledge of computer Programming Mark Zuckerberg started writing code for his own new Website in January 2004, Finally on 4 February 2004 a new site which was known as "Thefacebook" was launched by Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg's new Website was " thefacebook.com ". The origins of Facebook have been in dispute since the very week a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched the site as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004. Then called "thefacebook.com," the site was an instant hit. Now, six years later, the site has become one of the biggest web sites in the world, visited by 400 million people a month.
On 10 February 2004, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, while he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product. The three complained to The Harvard Crimson, and the newspaper began an investigation in response.
Following the official launch of the Facebook social media platform, the three filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg that resulted in a settlement. The agreed settlement was for 1.2 million Facebook shares that were worth US$300 million at Facebook's IPO. Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard in his sophomore year in order to complete his project. And he succeeds in developing a popular social network which is known as Facebook and using by people around the world.
History Of Facebook
In 2003, when Mark Zuckerberg was studying at Harvard University as second-year student, a website was launched by the roommate of Mark Zuckerberg, for this website Mark Zuckerberg wrote a program on the basis of their computer programming knowledge. This website is known as the " Facemash ". On this website, some pictures were uploaded by them. The Facemash has collected 450 users and 22000 photo views only on its starting four hours. But this website ran only for a weekend and shut down by the administrators of Harvard.After someday some social study tools of an art history final exam uploaded by Zuckerberg on Facemash. He uploaded all art images to a website, each of which was featured with a corresponding comments section, then he shared the site with his classmates, and people started sharing notes.
In January 2004 Zuckerberg started writing a program for his new website. The writing of the program completed by him in February 2004. Finally, on 4 February, 2004 Zuckerberg launched a website which is known as " the facebook ". The URL of the facebook was thefacebook.com. Six days after the site launched, Harvard seniors Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing that he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com.
On the first month of the launching of website, only the students of Harvard college were the member of the facebook . Later more people outside from Harvard college joined the facebook which included Eduardo Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes. These helped the Zuckerberg for promoting his website. Till March 2004, Mark Zuckerberg and his associates were able to expand TheFacebook to the universities of Columbia, Stanford, and And then expanded to all Ivy League colleges, Boston University, New York University, MIT, and gradually most universities in the United States and Canada.
In mid-2004, Zuckerberg announced the entrepreneur Sean Parker who was an informal advisor as to the president of Thefacebook. The domain name facebook.com was purchased by Zuckerberg in 2005. Then membership of Facebook was not limited they expanded the membership for facebook.com to several companies which included Microsoft, Apple, etc.
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