His competing version was named
TheFacebook.com and went live February 5, 2004.
was still topping the charts, young Mark Zuckerberg, the 19-year-old sophomore, and his Harvard roommates unleashed
TheFacebook.com.
But in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, I have been thinking back to my decision to sign up for
thefacebook.com on the site's fifth day in existence, and I am struck by the parallels between Zuckerberg's creation and a pesky (if generally benign) virus.
Soon, however, the idea for Facemash evolved into a website dubbed
thefacebook.com that linked Harvard students online.
2004: Facebook started with the name "the facebook" that was available on
thefacebook.com.
Thefacebook.com. Retrieved from http://thefacebook.com/about.php.
Zuckerberg launched
Thefacebook.com, as it was then known, from his dorm room on February 4, 2004 with some of his roommates and classmates.
Thefacebook.com - as it was originally called - proved an instant hit, and spread from Harvard to other colleges and universities right across America.
NEW YORK -- It has been 10 years since a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg created a website called
Thefacebook.com to let his classmates find their friends online.
4 -- On this day, February 4, exactly 10 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg turned on
TheFacebook.com from his Harvard dorm.