Facebook Launches

2019

Mark Zuckerberg — Harvard sophomore when he launched TheFacebook from his dorm room in February 2004. By 2012 the site had a billion monthly active users. On February 4, 2004, Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg launches TheFacebook from his dorm room. The site expands to Yale and Stanford within weeks. By 2006 it opens to anyone with an email address. By 2012 it has a billion monthly active users — the first single platform to reach that scale. The subject dates from 2004; this photograph was taken in 2019.