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Facebook completes 20 years
The company currently owns apps like Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp, as well as several other products.


California: The social media platform named Facebook has completed its 20 years now.
According to the details, 2004 is the year that broadband replaced dial-up internet while mobile phones with color screens became popular and this year Facebook came into everyone’s phone.
Mark Zuckerberg, an undergraduate student at Harvard University when he was 19 years old he introduced a social media network called Facebook with his friends on January 4, 2004.
The social media network was named after the university's student directory, known as Facebook, created at the start of the academic year.
Meanwhile, Internet search engine Yahoo unsuccessfully tried to buy Facebook for one billion dollars in the same year.
Facebook became used by people around the world and became the world's largest social media network, with more than 3 billion monthly users in 2024 now.
The company currently owns apps like Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp, as well as several other products.
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