Hello Geeks!! This month’s
legend history of the month is about a young entrepreneur and who changed the
world of social network.Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May
14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is
best known as one of fiveco-founders of the social networking website Facebook.
As of April 2013, Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook,
Inc. and in 2013 his personal wealth was estimated to be US$16.8 billion.
Together with his college
roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew
McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, Zuckerberg launched Facebook from
Harvard's dormitory rooms.
During Zuckerberg's high
school years, under the company name Intelligent Media Group, he built a music
player called the Synapse Media Player that used artificial intelligence to
learn the user's listening habits, which was posted to Slashdot and received a
rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine.Microsoft and AOL tried to purchase
Synapse and recruit Zuckerberg, but he chose instead to enroll at Harvard in
September 2002
Zuckerberg launched
Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2004. An earlier
inspiration for Facebook may have come from Phillips Exeter Academy, the prep
school from which Zuckerberg graduated in 2002. It published its own student
directory, “The Photo Address Book,” which students referred to as “The
Facebook.” Such photo directories were an important part of the student social
experience at many private schools. With them, students were able to list
attributes such as their class years, their friends, and their telephone
numbers.
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