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Turns out Facebook wasn’t always called Facebook. It originally launched as TheFacebook on thefacebook.com with Zuckerberg claiming he was “Founder, Master and Commander, Enemy of the State”. It didn’t become Facebook.com until 2005 when the fledgling site bought the domain for $200,000 from aboutface.com a web and intranet directory software company
Over 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States with all those people spending a whopping 5703 years (3 billion minutes) on the site each day.
The website is built on PHP-MySQL and is the second most-trafficked PHP site in the world
In April 2006, revenue was rumored to be over $1.5 million per week
The company already rejected a $975 million offer for the site
Facebook is valued at 8 billion according to Peter Thiel
It currently hosts over 1.7 Billion photos
Facebook is the 5th most valuable US Internet company, yet with only $150 million in annual revenue.
With this success, Zuckerberg (founder), Moskowitz and Hughes moved out to Palo Alto for the summer and rented a sublet. A few weeks later, Zuckerberg ran into the former cofounder of Napster, Sean Parker. Parker soon moved in to Zuckerberg’s apartment and they began working together. Parker provided the introduction to their first investor, Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and managing partner of the Founders Fund. Thiel invested $500,000 into Facebook.

The creator of the Cabbage Patch Dolls was a former Microsoft programmer who left in 1981

Bill Gates’ house was designed using a Macintosh computer
Bill Gate had a SAT score of 1590. The top score for the test is 1600
Bill Gates earns $250 every second; that’s about $20 million a day and $7.8 billion a year
By the age of 17, Gates had sold his first computer program, a time-tabling system for his high school, for $4,200

Tetris has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, since it began in 1982.That provided the creator 800 million in revenues

When the cd was invented, it was decided that a cd should be long enough to hold beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at any tempo which was precisely 72 minutes

One terabyte(1000 gigabytes) is equivalent to storing a stack of documents that is more than 16 times the height of New York’s empire state building
50 gigabytes of information can hold up to 3 piles of single spaced typed pages that is taller than the Eiffel tower
According to the university of california 1,693,000 terabytes of information are produced & stored magnetically per year

The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969

Storm botnet are remotely controlled conputers linked via the Storm Worm (Trojan) and in September 2007 is estimated to control up to 50 million computers. It was potentially more powerful than the world’s super computers