Did Mark Zuckerberg Build Facebook?
In short: Facebook began as a PHP site launched at Harvard in February 2004 and grew into photo stores, caches and custom data centres built to serve billions of requests.
A 2:07 short film in the series “Being Social Online”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: The Atlantic, “Before It Conquered the World, Facebook Conquered Harvard”; CS50, Harvard University (lecture video hosted on YouTube), “CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg - 7 December 2005”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Dustin Moskovitz | American entrepreneur | Britannica”; Encyclopaedia Britannica (Britannica Money), “Facebook | Overview, History, Controversies, & Facts | Britannica Money”; USENIX Association (NSDI '13 paper by Facebook Inc. engineers, hosted on a Duke University course page), “facebook-memcached.pdf”; IEEE Spectrum, “Under the Hood at Google and Facebook”; Academia.edu (hosting the paper 'Scaling Memcache at Facebook', presented at Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2013), “Scaling Memcache at Facebook”; USENIX Association (2013 USENIX Annual Technical Conference paper by Facebook, Inc. engineers; hosted on a Carnegie Mellon University course site), “11730-atc13-bronson.pdf”; BBC News, “Facebook shares green data centre technology”; Engineering at Meta (Facebook Engineering), “Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project”; Facebook Inc. (paper hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay), “haystack.pdf”.
Sources used in this film
- The Atlantic — Before It Conquered the World, Facebook Conquered Harvard · View →
- CS50, Harvard University (lecture video hosted on YouTube) — CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg - 7 December 2005 · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Dustin Moskovitz | American entrepreneur | Britannica · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (Britannica Money) — Facebook | Overview, History, Controversies, & Facts | Britannica Money · View →
- USENIX Association (NSDI '13 paper by Facebook Inc. engineers, hosted on a Duke University course page) — facebook-memcached.pdf · View →
- IEEE Spectrum — Under the Hood at Google and Facebook · View →
- Academia.edu (hosting the paper 'Scaling Memcache at Facebook', presented at Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2013) — Scaling Memcache at Facebook · View →
- USENIX Association (2013 USENIX Annual Technical Conference paper by Facebook, Inc. engineers; hosted on a Carnegie Mellon University course site) — 11730-atc13-bronson.pdf · View →
- BBC News — Facebook shares green data centre technology · View →
- Engineering at Meta (Facebook Engineering) — Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project · View →
- Facebook Inc. (paper hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay) — haystack.pdf · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: The Atlantic: Before It Conquered the World, Facebook Conquered Harvard
- Also: CS50, Harvard University (lecture video hosted on YouTube): CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg - 7 December 2005
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Dustin Moskovitz | American entrepreneur | Britannica
- Also: Facebook | Overview, History, Controversies, & Facts | Britannica Money
- Also: USENIX Association (NSDI '13 paper by Facebook Inc. engineers, hosted on a Duke University course page): facebook-memcached.pdf
- Also: IEEE Spectrum: Under the Hood at Google and Facebook
- Also: Academia.edu (hosting the paper 'Scaling Memcache at Facebook', presented at Networked Systems Design and Implementation: Scaling Memcache at Facebook
- Also: USENIX Association (2013 USENIX Annual Technical Conference paper by Facebook, Inc. engineers; hosted on a Carnegie Mell: 11730-atc13-bronson.pdf
- Also: BBC News: Facebook shares green data centre technology
- Also: Engineering at Meta (Facebook Engineering): Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project
- Also: Facebook Inc. (paper hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay): haystack.pdf
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