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Everything is there  Beginning Facebook opening is a version of Hot or Not Harvard University, called Facemash. Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, has created Facemash on October 28, 2003. Facemash “used images obtained from the online entries of nine houses, put two next to each other and require the user to choose who is the hotter”  • To accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into the protected areas of Harvard's computer network and copied the houses' private dormitory ID images. • Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online. • The site was quickly forwarded to several campus group list- servers, but was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration. Beginning • Zuckerberg was charged by the administration with breach of security, violating copyrights, and violating individual privacy, and faced expulsion. Ultimately, however, the charges were dropped. • Next semester, Zuckerman founded "The Facebook", originally located at thefacebook.com, on February 4, 2004. Beginning • Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College, and within the first month, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the service. • Eduardo Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote the website. • In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale. It soon opened to the other Ivy League schools, Boston University,New York University, MIT, and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States. Beginning • Facebook incorporated in the summer of 2004, and the entrepreneur Sean Parker, who had been informally advising Zuckerberg, became the company's president. • In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California. • It received its first investment later that month from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. • The company dropped The from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000. Beginning • This is the table about total active users • Facebook achieved landmark of 100 millions users in August 26, 2008 • And in January 5, 2011 was 600 millions users Development Total active users Date Users (in millions) Days later Monthly growth August 26, 2008 100 1665 178.38% April 8, 2009 200 225 13.33% September 15, 2009 300 150 10% February 5, 2010 400 143 6.99% July 21, 2010 500 166 4.52% January 5, 2011 600 168 3.57% • Facebook launched a high-school version in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called the next logical step. At that time, high-school networks required an invitation to join. • Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft. • Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006, to everyone of age 13 and older with a valid email address. Development • On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion. Microsoft's purchase included rights to place international ads on Facebook. • In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. • In September 2009, Facebook said that it had turned cash flow positive for the first time. Development