Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an
American computer programmer and
entrepreneur. As a
Harvard College student he founded the online
social networking service Facebook with the help of fellow Harvard student and
computer science major
Andrew McCollum as well as
roommates Dustin Moskovitz and
Chris Hughes. He now serves as Facebook's
CEO. Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room on February 4, 2004. It quickly became a success at Harvard and more than two-thirds of the school's students signed up in the first two weeks. Zuckerberg then decided to spread Facebook to other schools and enlisted the help of roommate Dustin Moskovitz. They first spread it to
Stanford,
Columbia and
Yale and then to other
Ivy League colleges and schools in the
Boston area. By the beginning of the summer, Zuckerberg and Moskovitz had released Facebook at almost 30 schools. Zuckerberg moved to
Palo Alto,
California with Moskovitz and some friends during the summer of 2004. They leased a small house which served as their first office. Over the summer, Zuckerberg met
Peter Thiel who invested in the company. Today, the company has four buildings in downtown Palo Alto.
The following are images from various internet-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1Postage stamp of Azerbaijan (2004): 35 Years of the Internet, 1969–2004 (from
History of the Internet)
Image 2The
NeXT Computer used by
Tim Berners-Lee at
CERN became the first Web server. (from
History of the World Wide Web)
Image 3The digital divide measured in terms of bandwidth is not closing, but fluctuating up and down. Gini coefficients for telecommunication capacity (in
kbit/s) among individuals worldwide (from
Internet access)
Image 4Wi-Fi logo (from
Internet access)
Image 5info.cern.ch, the first website, in 2025 (from
History of the World Wide Web)
Image 8Map of the
TCP/IP test network in February 1982 (from
History of the Internet)
Image 11Number of Internet hosts worldwide: 1969–2019
Source:
Internet Systems Consortium. (from
History of the Internet)
Image 12Satellite Internet access via
VSAT in Ghana (from
Internet access)
Image 13Where the WEB was born (from
History of the World Wide Web)
Image 14Internet Connectivity Access layer (from
Internet access)
Image 161997 advertisement in
State Magazine by the US
State Department Library for sessions introducing the then-unfamiliar Web (from
History of the World Wide Web)
Image 17Broadband affordability in 2011
This map presents an overview of broadband affordability, as the relationship between average yearly income per capita and the cost of a broadband subscription (data referring to 2011). Source: Information Geographies at the Oxford Internet Institute. (from
Internet access)
Image 18The corridor where the World Wide Web was born, on the ground floor of building No. 1 at CERN (from
History of the World Wide Web)
Image 19BBN Technologies TCP/IP Internet map of early 1986 (from
History of the Internet)
Image 21Wi-Fi range diagram (from
Internet access)
Image 24T3 NSFNET Backbone, c. 1992 (from
History of the Internet)
Image 25First Internet demonstration, linking the
ARPANET,
PRNET, and
SATNET on November 22, 1977 (from
History of the Internet)
Image 26The "message block", designed by
Paul Baran in 1962 and refined in 1964, is the first proposal of a
data packet. (from
History of the Internet)
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