The Social Network

In October 2003, Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin has the idea to create a website. (a)  

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Mark Zuckerberg creates in a few hours a website called "FaceMash.com".  (a)  

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On the website Facesmash, male students can interactively choose which of two girls presented at a time is more attractive. 

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Mark is punished with six months of academic probation after the traffic to the site brings down parts of Harvard's computer network. 

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"Thefacebook", an online social networking website exclusive to Harvard University students would let people share personal and social information securely. (a)  

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By the spring of 2004, the Facebook grows in popularity, and it expands to other schools in the Northeastern United States. (a)  

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Mark is impressed with Parker since he presented a similar vision of Facebook.  (a)  

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Although no deals are reached, Parker suggests that they drop "The" from Thefacebook to make it simply "Facebook". (a)  

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Match the sentences with their corresponding character.

• If we could just go somewhere for a minute. 

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• I don't want to be rude to my friends.

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• You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the

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• You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life

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• Drop the "The." Just "Facebook." It's cleaner.

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Match the sentences with their corresponding character. 

• You invented something in high school too, right?

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• No, it says I could face legal action.

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• Bosnia. They don't have roads, but they have Facebook.

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• The letter says we could face legal action. 

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• Checking in to see how it's going in Bosnia. 

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