Well Facebook History is here. Its all about perseverence struggle impact & popularity & of course great programming. Popularity History: Mark Zuckerberg founded The Facebook in 2004 while he was studying at Harward university. THE was dropped in 2005 when the company purchased facebook.com domain name in 05. Initially it was only for Harward students. But the popularity increased rapidly. At the same time Dustin Moskovitz & Chris Hughes joined to promote the website. It soon expanded to Stanford, Columbia & Yale. Later till Apr 05 it expanded with MIT, Boston College & University, Northeastern University, & all Ivy League schools within 2 months. Later High school iteration of Facebook was launched in September calling it the next Logical thing to do. By the end of o5 facebook had more than 2000 colleges & over 25000 schools over 7 countries. It also expanded membership to employees of 10 preselected companies till Apr 06. Later in Sept it was for everyone Funding History: Facebook recieved its first investment from Pay Pal co-founder Peter Thiel in June 2004. Followed by Accel Partners, Greylock Partners & Meritech Partners. Microsoft approached facebook in Sept 07 proposing an investment in return of 5% stake. But it actually bought only 1.6%