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In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched the social media platform Facebook. Initially intended as a network for students, Facebook now reaches three billion users. A look back.
Mark Zuckerberg (right) and Dustin Moscovitz, one of the co-founders, programmed the first version of Facebook at Harvard.
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Mark Zuckerberg, 19 years old and a psychology student at Harvard University, launched “Facemash” in 2003. A website where university students can rate the attractiveness of fellow students. Zuckerberg stole the students’ pictures from Facebook, Harvard’s student directory. The site is taken down again by the university after a few days and Zuckerberg is threatened with expulsion from the university.