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Fifteen years ago today, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg unleashed TheFacebook.com on humanity. For better or worse, his creation has become the world's most powerful engine of communication. These are the moments that helped it get there 1/ wired.trib.al/j9TzQQ8
The Winklevii sue Facebook
TheFacebook.com was 7 months old when Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra sued for breach of contract. The bitter suit ended in a settlement, but it spoke to Facebook's ruthless strategy toward competition 2/ wired.trib.al/j9TzQQ8
News Feed launches
At first, Facebook was more or less a directory of people's profiles. The launch of News Feed in Sept. 2006 changed that forever by creating a centralized stream of updates on users’ homepages. It also sparked a backlash 3/ wired.trib.al/j9TzQQ8
Facebook hires Sheryl Sandberg
In 2007, Zuckerberg was looking for help transforming his massively popular but unprofitable website into a legitimate business. Then he met Sandberg, who has turned the company’s ad business into what it is today 4/ wired.trib.al/j9TzQQ8
The debut of the Facebook Platform
Facebook’s sharing of user data with third parties goes back to the rollout of Platform in 2007, which allowed developers to build apps that integrated with Facebook. It has since evolved into Graph API 5/ wired.trib.al/j9TzQQ8
The Cambridge Analytica scandal
In March 2018, it was revealed Cambridge Analytica harvested the data of tens of millions of US Facebook users without their knowledge thanks to Facebook's lax policies about data sharing with developers 6/ wired.trib.al/j9TzQQ8
These are just some of the moments have transformed Facebook from a website for poking your college crush to a world-changing social network. Check out the full scope of Facebook’s evolution here: 7/ wired.trib.al/j9TzQQ8
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