Facebook turned 15 today. Instead of singing “Happy Birthday,” let’s take a trip to the Wayback Machine to see how things have changed on Facebook.com over the years.
Before Mark Zuckerberg came up with the name before he even went to Harvard University in 2004, “Facebook” was a brochure that had pictures of all the students along with their names. The goal of the brochure was to get to know each other.
Now, of course, Facebook is the way we can avoid face-to-face contact with other people.
Let's face it: we're all on Facebook. Below is an image from technologist Natalie Rojas' "Faces of Facebook":
Below we will see how the Facebook login page has changed over the years.
When it officially launched on February 4, 2004, most of us were using the AIM service. Then came Zuckerberg with Facebook. The first Facebook was on the domain thefacebook .com.
The homepage stated, “A Mark Zuckerberg Production” while the “Information” page is shown below:
When Sean Parker came to Facebook, he urged Zuckerberg to remove the “The” from the company name. Zuckerberg reportedly never wanted to, but he bought “Facebook.com” in 2005 and used it.
Initially, the site's appearance remained unchanged. But later that year, the company removed the "The" from its name:
In 2004, Facebook was a social networking site for colleges, but by 2005, as you can see below, there were “two Facebooks: one for college and one for high schoolers.”.
The social network made its first major change in 2007. It was then that Facebook finally stopped being an exclusive social club for students, and opened its doors to everyone: 
When Mark Zuckerberg became a billionaire in 2008, he decided to remove “a Mark Zuckerberg production” from the bottom of the website:
Since 2009, the changes to the website have been simpler, the company only uses images and login forms. See the images:
Like it or not, Facebook is undoubtedly the most popular “thing” in the history of mankind. At least until the next big thing comes along to replace it.
