Who is Mark Zuckerberg ?

The boy became interested in computer programming at 10 when his father presented him a PC and demonstrated elementary and basic principles of the software programming language “Atari BASIC.”

n 1996, 12-year-old Mark Zuckerberg created his first full-scale program product called ZuckNet that gave the family members the opportunity to communicate via the local net.

Having finished elementary school, Zuckerberg decided to develop his programming talent and entered the prestigious boarding school “Phillips Exeter Academy” where the main focus was on programming and teaching the Ancient Greek language.

The Facebook founder was brought up according to strict religious norms, but as he was of full legal age, he announced he was an atheist and did not hold to the traditions of Judaism.

The boy became interested in computer programming at 10 when his father presented him a PC and demonstrated elementary and basic principles of the software programming language “Atari BASIC.”

The would-be hacker got engaged in programming and created his first primitive computer games at high school. The ideas for graphics programs were created with the assistance of his school friends who could paint.

In 1996, 12-year-old Mark Zuckerberg created his first full-scale program product called ZuckNet that gave the family members the opportunity to communicate via the local net. Having finished elementary school,

Zuckerberg decided to develop his programming talent and entered the prestigious boarding school “Phillips Exeter Academy” where the main focus was on programming and teaching the Ancient Greek language.

but the young man rejected both the payment and the collaboration because he believed inspiration was not to be sold.

As his final paper, the programmer created “Synapse,” the program that recognized Internet users’ musical tastes – later, the company Microsoft would like to purchase it for $2 million. The executives of the giant IT company offered the young programmer to become its employee before he finished school, but the young man rejected both the payment and the collaboration because he believed inspiration was not to be sold.

In 2002, to everybody’s surprise, Mark Zuckerberg entered the Harvard University, Department of Psychology.

It was his mother who influenced Mark’s decision. However, simultaneously with psychology,

Zuckerberg mastered his programming skills and enrolled in additional IT courses while continuing to create his own programs. As a second-year student, he made the program “CourseMatch” due to which the students could share their experience in the subjects they studied.

Mark Zuckerberg’s second project was “Facemash” that provided the students with the opportunity to vote for the Harvard students’ photos.

To create this project, the hacker broke into the university database so that he was almost suspended: the students complained about using their personal pictures without their primary consent.

Despite the ban to develop “Fasemash,” the programmer did not give up the idea to make Harvard more open, so he invented an alternative project with the users’ albums protected by passwords.

The history of creating the most popular social network is as follows. Using the “Fasemash” software, Mark Zuckerberg created the communication masterpiece

e social network Facebook that expanded Harvard students’ interaction via the local net. In this work, Chris Hughes, Eduardo Saverin, and Dustin Moskovitz helped him.

The young men pieced up the new site for a week, and it became much more popular than “Fasemash.”

In a few days, the Facebook project expanded from the Harvard campus: The Ivy League universities in Boston, New York, Massachusetts, and Canada joined it.

In a few days, the Facebook project expanded from the Harvard campus: The Ivy League universities in Boston, New York, Massachusetts, and Canada joined it. Soon, Stanford Univerisity and Columbia University joined, too.

The idea of the social network was to post photos and information on personal pages, from scientific interests to tastes in food. Due to this, the net was filled with interest groups in no time, and they have been expanding each day.

the money his parents saved for his studies ($85 thousand) to his pet project. In summer 2004, the programmer moved to Palo Alto, registered his project as a legal body, and became the Facebook CEO.

Soon, the Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg realized that to develop the project, considerable investments were necessary. Following Bill Gates’s example,

Later, Mark Zuckerberg managed to attract rich investors who helped him expand the social network globally. Sean Parker, the iconic figure of the American Internet and the creator of the sharing service Napster, Peter Thiel, the co-founder of the payment system PayPal who contributed $500 thousand in Facebook, and Reid Hoffman, the creator of the first business social network “Linkedin” were among the hacker’s helpmates.