Specifically, they suggested that the hard drive included some damning instant messages and emails. The judge in the case refused to look at the hard drive and instead deferred to another judge who went on to approve the settlement. But, naturally, the possibility that the hard drive contained additional evidence set inquiring minds wondering what those emails and IMs revealed.
Specifically, it set inquiring minds wondering again whether Mark had, in fact, stolen the Winklevoss's idea, screwed them over, and then ridden off into the sunset with Facebook. Unfortunately, since the contents of Mark's hard drive had not been made public, no one had the answers. Over the past two years, we have interviewed more than a dozen sources familiar with aspects of this story — including people involved in the founding year of the company.
We have also reviewed what we believe to be some relevant IMs and emails from the period. Much of this information has never before been made public. None of it has been confirmed or authenticated by Mark or the company.
Based on the information we obtained, we have what we believe is a more complete picture of how Facebook was founded. This account follows. In the fall of , Harvard seniors Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra were on the lookout for a web developer who could bring to life an idea the three say Divya first had in a social network for Harvard students and alumni.
The site was to be called HarvardConnections. The three had been paying Victor Gao, another Harvard student, to do coding for the site, but at the beginning of the fall term Victor begged off the project.
Facemash had already made Mark a bit of a celebrity on campus, for two reasons. The first is that Mark got in trouble for creating it. The way the site worked was that it pulled photos of Harvard students off of Harvard's Web sites.
It rearranged these photos so that when people visited Facemash. The site also maintained a list of Harvard students, ranked by attractiveness. On Harvard's politically correct campus, this upset people, and Mark was soon hauled in front of Harvard's disciplinary board for students.
According to a November 19, Harvard Crimson article , he was charged with breaching security, violating copyrights, and violating individual privacy. Happily for Mark, the article reports that he wasn't expelled.
The second reason everyone at Harvard knew about Facemash and Mark Zuckerberg was that Facemash had been an instant hit. The same Harvard Crimson story reports that after two weeks, "the site had been visited by people, who voted at least 22, times.
It was for this ability to build a wildly popular site that Victor Gao first recommended Mark to Cameron, Tyler, and Divya. Sold on Mark, the Harvard Connection trio reached out to him. Mark agreed to meet. They first met in an early evening in late November in the dining hall of Harvard College's Kirkland House. Cameron, Tyler, and Divya brought up their idea for Harvard Connection, and described their plans to A build the site for Harvard students only, by requiring new users to register with Harvard.
Mark reportedly showed enthusiastic interest in the project. Later that night, Mark wrote an email to the Winklevoss brothers and Divya: "I read over all the stuff you sent and it seems like it shouldn't take too long to implement, so we can talk about that after I get all the basic functionality up tomorrow night.
The next day, on December 1, Mark sent another email to the HarvardConnections team. Part of it read, "I put together one of the two registration pages so I have everything working on my system now.
I'll keep you posted as I patch stuff up and it starts to become completely functional. These two emails sounded like the words of someone who was eager to be a part of the team and working away on the project. A few days later, however, Mark's emails to the HarvardConnection team started to change in tone.
Specifically, they went from someone who seemed to be hard at work building the product to someone who was so busy with schoolwork that he had no time to do any coding at all. December 4: "Sorry I was unreachable tonight. I just got about three of your missed calls. I was working on a problem set. I'm also really busy tomorrow so I don't think I'd be able to meet then anyway. I've basically been in the lab the whole time working on a cs problem set which I"m still not finished with.
Sorry it's taken a while for me to get back to you. I'm completely swamped with work this week. What makes Facebook unique is the ability to connect and share with the people you care about at the same time. For many, having a Facebook account is now an expected part of being online, much like having your own email address. And because Facebook is so popular, other websites have worked to integrate Facebook.
This means you can use a single Facebook account to sign in to different services across the Web. Ceglia claimed that he was now owed a large chunk on Facebook shares based on that investment.
At the time, Facebook suggested the claim was "fraudulent" and used Ceglia's history of fraud as evidence. But the case then got more interesting. The actual founder of StreetDelivery, Andrew Logan, confirmed that Ceglia had indeed worked there in , and that Zuckerberg had been employed to write the code for Streetfax.
The case, however, was dismissed by a federal judge when the findings of a magistrate judge were upheld showing that the evidence provided by Ceglia had, indeed, been faked. You won't be surprised to hear that the first Facebook profile belonged to none other than Mark Zuckerberg himself. The first "real" Facebook user, with an id of 5, was Chris Hughes, Zuckerberg's friend, and co-founder of Facebook. The next few dozen accounts appear to have been Zuckerberg's friends, classmates, and roommates.
Interestingly, Business Insider conducted an investigation a few years back and discovered the first 20 Facebook accounts and their relationships with one another.
According to their findings, after Zuckerberg and Hughes, the next few accounts were as follows:. While we have already touched on some of the early lawsuits against the company, Facebook has also taken fire for a few other, allegedly suspect, activities. One major bone of contention surrounding Facebook is its apparent dissemination of "fake news". Coming to the attention of journalists during the U. According to these claims, these ads both contributed to and influenced the outcome of the elections.
Whether you personally believe this or not, the accusations continue to damage public attitude towards the company. We need to be careful not to discourage sharing of opinions or to mistakenly restrict accurate content. However, Facebook is still mired in claims that it allows fake news and dangerous propaganda to be disseminated on its site. More recently, Facebook, and Zuckerberg in particular, have been accused of doing nothing to reign in dangerous hate speech on the site, and even of, allegedly, encouraging the dissemination of such speech through company policy.
In June , Facebook began shedding advertisers, who claimed they no longer wanted their ads to appear next to posts from hate groups. Due to the nature of Facebook's business model, it is also regularly accused of questionable data harvesting scandals. Together the team expanded the site to additional universities and colleges. In , Napster founder and angel investor Sean Parker became the company's president. The company changed the site's name from TheFacebook to just Facebook after purchasing the domain name facebook.
In September of , Facebook announced that anyone who was at least 13 years old and had a valid email address could join. By , it had become the world's most used social networking service, according to a report by the analytics site Compete. While Zuckerberg's antics and the site's profits eventually led to him becoming the world's youngest multi-billionaire, he's done his part to spread the wealth around. In , he signed a pledge, along with other wealthy businessmen, to donate at least half of his wealth to charity.
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