Mark Zuckerberg, a student at Harvard, had the idea in the winter of 2004. He started off with the idea of creating a universal online database for college students with social-networking functionality.He revamped the idea of the original college facebooks-the books of bad freshman-year ID photos and boring information-by putting them online and giving students the control over the information they wanted to share with others.  -   Chris Hughes     Quotes
Mark Zuckerberg, a student at Harvard, had the idea in the winter of 2004. He started off with the idea of creating a universal online database for college students with social-networking functionality.He revamped the idea of the original college facebooks-the books of bad freshman-year ID photos and boring information-by putting them online and giving students the control over the information they wanted to share with others. Chris Hughes