It's from 2004, before you were born.
- Maker
- Mark Zuckerberg & co.
- Type
- Social network
- Debuted
- 2004
- Note
- Started in a dorm room
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About
As of 2026, it's 22 years old.
Facebook began in 2004 as 'TheFacebook,' a Harvard dorm-room project to rank classmates and let students poke each other digitally. It escaped campus, dropped the 'The,' and proceeded to swallow the entire concept of staying in touch.
It gave us the news feed, the relationship status, the birthday reminder that saved friendships, and the family member who shares slightly too much. Billions of people signed up, mostly to see what everyone else was up to.
Facebook is the digital town square that started as a hot-or-not for nerds and grew into the place your aunt argues about everything: world-changing, occasionally exhausting, impossible to fully quit.
Facebook through the years
Launch
Debuts at Harvard as TheFacebook.
Open to all
Anyone over 13 can now join.
IPO
Goes public and crosses a billion users.
