Facebook was called Thefacebook when it first started at Harvard
Facebook just turned 10 and to mark this milestone, Business Insider has an article chronicling how it has grown from its beginnings as a private directory for Harvard students to the biggest social networking site in the world.
The website has gone through numerous changes throughout the years, tweaking its layout and adding features such as home and profile page redesigns and a real-time news feed, provoking criticism and outrage along the way.
Facebook celebrated by unveiling its Lookback app, a video summary of your top moments on Facebook, which you can access here.
Scroll down to see how Facebook has evolved over the last decade and read the full article here.
Mark Zuckerberg’s profile in 2006
What a Facebook group page looked like in 2005
What a Facebook group page looks like now
Facebook launched the News Feed in 2006 to display your friends’ activity in a single timeline
The homepage got a redesign in 2009 with the addition of a real-time News Feed. Facebook also introduced an algorithm to determine the order in which status updates should be displayed
A News Ticker was added in 2011 to let users stay updated on their friends’ activities while browsing other areas of Facebook
Launched in 2011, the Facebook Timeline acts as a virtual timeline of your life
Sponsored stories started creeping into the News Feed in January 2012
What Facebook’s News Feed looks like today
[via Business Insider]