The founder of this app initially created a website known as what?
FaceMash
Burbn
Pikaboo
BackRub
Answer: FaceMash
FaceMash is the former name of Facebook that was launched on October 28, 2003. The name was changed to TheFacebook on February 4, 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and college roommates and fellow Harvard University students, in particular Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
The website’s membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students. Later, they expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and gradually most universities in the United States and Canada, corporations. By September 2006, it became available to everyone with a valid email address along with an age requirement of being 13 and older.
Zuckerberg wrote the software for the Facemash website when he was in his second year of college. The website was set up as a type of “hot or not” game for Harvard students.
Facemash allowed visitors to compare two students’ pictures side by side and let them decide who was more attractive.
Zuckerberg faced expulsion and was charged by the administration with breach of security, violating copyrights, and violating individuals’ privacy. The charges were later dropped.
On October 25, 2010, entrepreneur and banker Rahul Jain auctioned off the FaceMash.com domain to an unknown buyer for $30,201.
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