Facebook the equivalent of cigarettes for your mental health turned 15 today.
Instead, lets take another trip in theWayback Machineto see how things have changed at Facebook.com over the years.
The idea was that a face book would help students get to know each other.
Now, of course, Facebook is how we all avoid face-to-face contact with other humans.
Letsfaceit: were all on Facebook.
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Logging in and out?
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Whoops, thats not Facebook!
However it isFacebook.comcirca early 2004.
When Zuckerberg launched Facebook, its website was located athttp://www.thefacebook.com.
Heres what it looked like:
I think we all oweold peoplean apology.
The About section is:
Say what you will about Zuckerberg, he was honest from the beginning.
But Parkers urging and Facebooks instant success emboldened Zuck, and he managed to obtain Facebook.com in 2005.
At first, the sites appearance remained unchanged.
The social online grid made its first major overhaul in 2007.
It was calling itself a social utility in those days:
Mark Zuckerberg became a billionaire in 2008.
And in 2030 itll bring the poke feature back to replace those.
Well all be onTikTokthen anyway.
The site remained largely unchanged through 2013:
That marked the sites last major change.
Love it or hate it, Facebooks arguably the most popular thing in the history of humanity.
At least until the next big thing comes along to replace it (bye Tom!).
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