Facebook began in 2003, under a different name: Facemash. It was created by Mark Zuckerberg, with the help of his two other Harvard roommates, Dustin Moskowitz and Chris Hughes. Mark Zuckerberg was in his sophomore year at Harvard, and he was creating Facemash to take his mind off his crush and all the tension and stress of being in Harvard.
After an incident regarding Facemash and how it is not appropriate, Harvard ordered Mark to shut it down and he was expelled for breaching privacy. However, Harvard dropped their charges, and the following semester, Zuckerberg recreated Facemash, and in 2004, The Facebook was created. A year later, Mark Zuckerberg dropped "the" from "The Facebook", leaving it as just Facebook and later on in September of the same year, he created "High School" versions of Facebook, so each high school could have their Facebook accounts. He soon branched out to companies too.
In 2007, Facebook was opened to the public for anybody above 13 years old.
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