Facebook is a classic Silicon Valley success story: From a Harvard dorm to the top of the world.
It has made Mark Zuckerberg into a legendary figure, and turned a hoodie and tennis shoes the height of tech industry fashion.
These days, Facebook is worth $265.3 billion, with over 1.5 billion people using the site every month.
Here's the story behind Facebook's insane growth, from February 2004 through today.
Spoiler alert: It involves a lot of beer.
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Facebook got its start at Harvard's Kirkland House dormitory.
In 2003, Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg would build a program called "Face mash." It was a Hot or Not-style app using the pictures of his classmates that he hacked from the school administration's dormitory ID files. It got 22,000 page views from 450 people in the first four hours it was up. A few days later, Harvard ordered it to be taken down, citing copyright and security concerns.
Zuckerberg faced disciplinary action from Harvard, but was allowed to stay at the school. Undeterred, he launched Facebook on February 4, 2004.
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