Look at the image above. This is how Facebook, or The Facebook as it was then known, looked when Mark Zuckerberg and a handful of friends launched it from their student digs 20 years ago.
Since then, the world’s most popular social network has been redesigned dozens of times.
But its aim has remained the same: to connect people online. And make mountains of money from advertising.
But its aim has remained the same: to connect people online. And make mountains of money from advertising.
Other social networks, such as MySpace, existed before Facebook – but Mark Zuckerberg’s site instantly took off when it launched in 2004, proving just how rapidly an online site of this kind could take hold.
In less than a year it had one million users, and within four years it had overtaken MySpace – fuelled by innovations such as the ability to “tag” people in photos.
Taking a digital camera on a night out, then tagging your friends in dozens of pictures was a staple of teenage life in the late noughties. The constantly changing activity feed was also a big draw for early users.
Look at the image above. This is how Facebook, or The Facebook as it was then known, looked when Mark Zuckerberg and a handful of friends launched it from their student digs 20 years ago.
But its aim has remained the same: to connect people online. And make mountains of money from advertising.
Since then, the world’s most popular social network has been redesigned dozens of times.
But its aim has remained the same: to connect people online. And make mountains of money from advertising.
But its aim has remained the same: to connect people online. And make mountains of money from advertising.
Other social networks, such as MySpace, existed before Facebook – but Mark Zuckerberg’s site instantly took off when it launched in 2004, proving just how rapidly an online site of this kind could take hold.
In less than a year it had one million users, and within four years it had overtaken MySpace – fuelled by innovations such as the ability to “tag” people in photos.
Taking a digital camera on a night out, then tagging your friends in dozens of pictures was a staple of teenage life in the late noughties. The constantly changing activity feed was also a big draw for early users.
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