Zuckerberg's biography

2. Born on May 14, 1984 in White
Plains, New York to Edward and
Karen Zuckerberg.
Grew up in Dobbs Ferry, New
York.
Jewish family.
His dad is a dentist and his mom
is a doctor.
Biography

3. Education & Social Life
 Zuckerberg started his high school
education at Ardsley High School in
Ardsley, New York, but he found that
this school wasn’t challenging him
enough so he transferred to Phillips
Exeter Academy, a boarding school in
Exeter, New Hampshire.
Education & Social Life
It’s a creator.
He is only 26.

4. After graduating high school,
he attended Harvard
University but dropped out
after his sophomore year.

5. Zuckerberg developed an interest in computers
at early age.
When he was about 12, he used Atari BASIC to
developed a messaging programmed called
‘Zucknet’.
The Budding Programmer

6.  His father used the programme in his dental
office so that the receptionist could inform
him of a new patient without yelling across
the room.
 The Zuckerberg family also used zucknet to
communicate within the house.

7.  Together with his friends, who were artists, he used to
create computer games for fun.
 To keep up with his interest in computers his father
hired a computer tutor to work with him who soon
realised that it was tough to stay ahead of the prodigy.

8.  On October 28, 2003
Zuckerberg got the
idea to create
Facemash.
How Facebook began?
 Facemash was a Harvard version of Hot or Not. It compared
two people and the users voted on which one was “hotter”.

9.  Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s computer
network to obtain the pictures of students
from the different dorm’s online Facemash.
 The site was shut down a few days later by
the Harvard administration so he was to
removed from the school.
 http://www.thecrimson.com/ar
ticle/2003/11/19/facemash-
creator-survives-ad-board-
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10. acebook
 Inspired by an article in
The Harvard Crimson
about the Facemash
incident, Zuckerberg
started writing code for a
new site.

11. acebook
 On February 4, 2004, he launched ‘The facebook’ originally
located at thefacebook.com from his dorm room at
Harvard.