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Wednesday, February 4, 2004

On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com from his Harvard dorm room. It was initially limited to Harvard students. Within a month, more than half the undergrads had signed up.

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Why this date?

  • Facebook hit 1 million users by the end of 2004.
  • It dropped the "the" and rebranded from thefacebook.com to facebook.com in 2005.
  • The parent company renamed itself to Meta on October 28, 2021.
  • Facebook has over 3 billion monthly active users today — about a third of humanity.

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