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2006-08-18 03:09:56 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Trivia

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the creator of facebook

2006-08-18 03:14:40 · answer #1 · answered by lexie 6 · 0 0

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer known for creating Facebook, an online social directory, with the help of Harvard roommates Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz. The site is used by over 7.5 million people at over 2,200 universities, 22,000 high schools, and 2,000 companies in the around the world. Zuckerberg was raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He began programming computers in sixth grade. Zuckerberg attended Ardsley High School but by his junior year he had transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy where he resided in Browning House. For his senior project at Exeter, he and a friend, Adam D’Angelo, coded an artificially intelligent MP3 player that tracked a person's listening patterns and tried to predict what that person wanted to listen to next. The application, called Synapse, was featured on Slashdot and the pair were approached by several companies, but according to Zuckerberg the pair was not interested in selling.Zuckerberg attended Harvard University and was enrolled in the class of 2006. At Harvard, Zuckerberg continued creating his projects. An early project, Coursematch, allowed students to view lists of other students enrolled in the same classes. A later project, Facemash.com, was a Harvard-specific image rating site similar to Hot or Not. A version of the site was online for four hours before Zuckerberg's Internet access was revoked by administration officials. The computer services department brought Zuckerberg before the Harvard University Administrative Board where he was charged with breaching security and violating copyrights and privacy.The school alleged that Zuckerberg had hacked into House websites to harvest images of students without their permission. Zuckerberg said he thought that information should be free and publicly available. The action taken by the board, if any, was not made public. In 2004, Zuckerberg took a leave of absence from the college, and a year later dropped out.Zuckerberg launched the online social directory Facebook on February 4, 2004, for Harvard students. The website spread across the Harvard campus and within a few weeks, over half the undergraduate population had registered. By the end of February, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes had joined Zuckerberg to spread the website. Within two months, Facebook expanded to allow students from the rest of the Ivy League and other prominent universities to register. It became something of a network phenomenon, spreading rapidly to other schools, despite some competition from similar local websites. As the website’s popularity rose and advertising revenue grew, Zuckerberg left Harvard to run Facebook fulltime.

In late 2004, Zuckerberg created with Andrew McCollum (a Facebook employee and fellow Harvard student) and Adam D'Angelo (the friend who worked on Synapse, at Caltech at the time) the peer-to-peer file sharing program, Wirehog. [4] Wirehog was linked to Facebook and allowed friends to share files, such as photos, between computers. The program stayed in private beta and has since disappeared.

Zuckerberg works out of Facebook's Palo Alto, California headquarters.

2006-08-18 10:48:30 · answer #2 · answered by landkm 4 · 0 0

i wish i knew!

2006-08-18 10:15:27 · answer #3 · answered by pinkish ;) 2 · 0 0

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