In 2004, as broadband was replacing dial-up internet and mobile phones with colour screens were gaining popularity, on February 4, a social network, named TheFacebook, was launched by 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates at Harvard University.
The idea behind Facebook was an offshoot of one of Zuckerberg's previous projects called Facemash, a hot-or-not website used to rate female Harvard students' faces side-by-side. To obtain the photos used on the site, Zuckerberg hacked into the university's security system and copied student ID images without their permission.
The social network was a big hit and soon spread to other college campuses across the United States. Within its first year, the platform grew to one million users, and in August 2005, it was renamed facebook.com. By the end of 2006, anyone above the age of 13 with internet access could join.
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