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Essay / The creation of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook - 516
In theory, in October 2003, Facebook actually started with the idea of Facemash. Facemash uploaded by Mark Zuckerberg was only available to Harvard students where they compared two students and indicated whether they were hot or not. Mark was able to upload more student photos by hacking into Harvard's database where the students' profiles were located. However, the next day, outraged students demanded Zuckerberg shut down the site. But one thing was clear: people like to go online and see photos of their friends. What is not clear is that Zuckerberg also worked on another site called HarvardConnection.com for Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra who later sued Mark for allegedly stealing their idea when creating Facebook. Finally, in January 2004, Mark Zuckerberg registered Facebook. .com domain. He mentioned in a Harvard Crimson article that he was inspired by the Facemash incident to create Facebook: "It is clear that the technology needed to create a centralized website is readily available...the benefits are numerous . » Marc too...