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Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook: From Harvard Dorm to Meta

Quiz your knowledge of Facebook's history, from Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room launch in 2004 to the 2021 rebrand into Meta and beyond.

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On what date did Facebook (originally TheFacebook.com) launch?

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  1. Q1. On what date did Facebook (originally TheFacebook.com) launch?

    • February 4, 2004
    • September 9, 2005
    • November 1, 2003
    • March 14, 2004
    Mark Zuckerberg launched TheFacebook.com on February 4, 2004, from his Harvard dorm room in Kirkland House. It was initially restricted to Harvard students before expanding to other Ivy League schools.

  2. Q2. What controversial site did Zuckerberg create in 2003 that got him in trouble at Harvard?

    • Facemash
    • CourseMatch
    • Harvard Connection
    • ZuckNet
    In October 2003 Zuckerberg created Facemash, a 'hot-or-not' style site that scraped student photos from Harvard's online face books. It crashed parts of Harvard's network and got him hauled in front of the administrative board.

  3. Q3. Who was Facebook's first president and an early seed investor?

    • Peter Thiel
    • Sean Parker
    • Marc Andreessen
    • Reid Hoffman
    Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster, served as Facebook's first president in 2004-2005. Peter Thiel was the first outside investor with a $500,000 angel investment in August 2004.

  4. Q4. How much did Facebook acquire Instagram for in 2012?

    • $300 million
    • $500 million
    • $1 billion
    • $3 billion
    Facebook announced the Instagram acquisition on April 9, 2012, for about $1 billion in cash and stock. At the time Instagram had just 13 employees and no revenue, making the price seem absurd; it's widely considered one of the best tech acquisitions ever.

  5. Q5. How much did Facebook pay for WhatsApp in 2014?

    • $2 billion
    • $9 billion
    • $19 billion
    • $40 billion
    Facebook acquired WhatsApp in February 2014 for approximately $19 billion in cash and stock. At the time it was the largest acquisition of a venture-backed company in history.

  6. Q6. In what year did Facebook go public, and at what initial share price?

    • 2010 at $20
    • 2012 at $38
    • 2013 at $50
    • 2014 at $42
    Facebook IPO'd on May 18, 2012, at $38 per share, valuing the company at $104 billion. The IPO was technically rocky and the stock fell sharply for months before eventually recovering.

  7. Q7. When did Facebook officially rebrand to Meta Platforms?

    • October 2020
    • October 2021
    • January 2022
    • November 2022
    Zuckerberg announced the rebrand to Meta Platforms Inc. on October 28, 2021, at the Connect conference. The change reflected the company's pivot toward building the 'metaverse,' though the social network kept the name Facebook.

  8. Q8. What VR company did Facebook acquire in 2014 for about $2 billion?

    • HTC Vive
    • Oculus
    • Magic Leap
    • Valve Index
    Facebook bought Oculus VR in March 2014 for about $2 billion, two years after Oculus's wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. The acquisition formed the foundation of Meta's hardware bet on VR/AR.

  9. Q9. What ad-focused short-video app did Meta launch in 2020 to compete with TikTok?

    • Lasso
    • Reels
    • Flash
    • Tiles
    Instagram Reels launched globally in August 2020 as Meta's direct answer to TikTok. Meta had previously tried with a standalone TikTok-clone called Lasso in 2018, which it shut down in 2020.

  10. Q10. What scandal involving political data analytics broke in March 2018?

    • Cambridge Analytica
    • Russian troll farms
    • Onavo VPN
    • Pixel scraping
    The Cambridge Analytica scandal broke in March 2018 when whistleblower Christopher Wylie revealed that the firm had harvested data from up to 87 million Facebook users without consent. Facebook was fined $5 billion by the FTC in 2019 as a result.

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