If you are on the web, there is no need to introduce Facebook.com with any kind of appreciative sentences. Many techies could have seen the move The Social Network - the story of Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerburg. No social network site has seen success as phenomenal as Facebook.
Facebook initially functioned on the domain thefacebook.com in its early stage (2004-2005) and was available mainly in US. With its popularity increasing drastically, the domain name the facebook.com was changed to facebook.com. About $200,000 was spent to acquire the domain in the year 2005. Even today the domain thefacebook.com is active, which would redirect you to facebook.com.
With further growth, after getting over 800 million users ( the current figure is over 900 million users), facebook has decided to acquire domain fb.com to make it easier for the users as well as for the company's own internal email usage. The domain was with American Farm Bureau Federation. American Farm Bureau has announced that it earned 8.5 million US dollars for selling the domain and they shifted their domain to fb.org from fb.com.
Facebook is continuously reinventing and changing its look and feel and features year by year. Here are some screen shots of fb.com from 2004-present.
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| 2004 facebook -then thefacebook.com |
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| 2004 facebook |
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| 2005 Facebook |
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| 2007-08 facebook |
Most of the internet users will be aware of the Facebook changes from 2010.
Pictures courtesy: sharealcholic.com, mashable.com, devilworkshop.org
