Facebook History

History
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The advent of Facebook came about as a spin-off of a Harvard University version of Hot or Not called Facemash.[9] Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted Facemash on October 28, 2003. Zuckerberg was blogging about a girl and trying to think of something to do to get her off his mind.[10]


The Facebook on February 12, 2004According to The Harvard Crimson, Facemash "used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the “hotter” person." To accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into the protected areas of Harvard's computer network and copied the house's private dormitory ID images. "Perhaps Harvard will squelch it for legal reasons without realizing its value as a venture that could possibly be expanded to other schools (maybe even ones with good-looking people ... )," Zuckerberg wrote in his personal blog. "But one thing is certain, and it’s that I’m a jerk for making this site. Oh well. Someone had to do it eventually ... "[11] The site was quickly forwarded to several campus group list-servers but was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg was charged by the administration with breach of security, violating copyrights and violating individual privacy and faced expulsion, but ultimately the charges were dropped.[12] The following semester, Zuckerberg founded "The Facebook", originally located at thefacebook.com, on February 4, 2004.[13] “Everyone’s been talking a lot about a universal face book within Harvard,” Zuckerberg told The Harvard Crimson. “I think it’s kind of silly that it would take the University a couple of years to get around to it. I can do it better than they can, and I can do it in a week.”[14] Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College, and within the first month, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the service.[15] Eduardo Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote the website. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale.[16] This expansion continued when it opened to all Ivy League and Boston area schools, and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States.[17] In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California.[16] The company dropped The from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.[18] Facebook launched a high school version in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called the next logical step.[19] At that time, high school networks required an invitation to join.[20] Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft.[21] Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006 to everyone of ages 13 and older with a valid e-mail address.[22][23] In October 2008, Facebook announced that it was to set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.[24]

UNCOVERING THE INTELLECTUAL CORE OF THE INFORMATION SYSTEMS DISCIPLINE

By Anna Sidorova, Nicholas Evangelopoulos,Joseph S. Valacich, Thiagarajan Ramakrishnan (MIS Quarterly,2008)


This study uses latent semantic analysis to examine a
large body of published IS research in order to address this
question. Specifically, the abstracts of all research papers
over the time period from 1985 through 2006 published in
three top IS research journals—MIS Quarterly, Information
Systems Research, and Journal of Management Information
Systems—were analyzed. This analysis identified five core
research areas: (1) information technology and organizations;
(2) IS development; (3) IT and individuals; (4) IT and
markets; and (5) IT and groups. Over the time frame of our
analysis, these core topics have remained quite stable.
However, the specific research themes within each core area
have evolved significantly, reflecting research that has
focused less on technology development and more on the
social context in which information technologies are designed
and used. As such, this analysis demonstrates that the
information systems academic discipline has maintained a
relatively stable research identity that focuses on how IT
systems are developed and how individuals, groups,
organizations, and markets interact with IT.