Mark Zuckerburg is one of the five co-founders of Facebook, Facebook was originally coined "The Facebook" and was launched in 2004. Zuckerburg went to Harvard Universit in Cambridge, where he was already known as a programing prodigy. It was there that he developed, for fun, CourseMatch which allowed students to select courses based off of other students decisions, so they could better form study groups. He also developed Facemash which allowed students to pick the best looking person from a group of photos.
Inspired by the Facemash program, which Harvard shut down because it crashed one of their systems due to its popularity, he began working on a new program. He then launched "thefacebook" which three harvard seniors declared he used their ideas to create a competing social network to their HarvardConnection.com. The matter was settled in a law suit. Zuckerburg then dropped out of Harvard his Sophomore year to complete his Facebook project.
In 2010 Zuckerburg was named number 1 on the top 100 most influential people of the Information Age. In 2010 he was also named one of the most wealthiest men, for he became a billionaire at the age of 23 in 2007, and his estimated personal wealth is now at 13.3 Billion Dollars.
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