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After Facemash was shut down, articles about Zuckerberg appeared in the Harvard student newspaper, and students were both outraged and interested in their fellow classmate. Soon, three students looking to start their own site came to Zuckerberg for help. Divya Narendra and brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss wanted to create a website that allowed students at Harvard to find each other online, share information, and possibly begin dating. Zuckerberg agreed to help Narendra and the Winklevosses create

what they called Harvard Connection. FACEBOOK BEGINS

Zuckerberg initially worked with Narendra and the Winklevoss twins on Harvard Connection, but it wasn’t long before he stopped working on the site. Instead, Zuckerberg began work on his own web project, a site that allowed users to post information about themselves and see information posted

by other students. He called his site TheFacebook.com, which many believe was based on the books Exeter gave students that included pictures, addresses, and phone numbers for every student in the school. “Face books” were a way for students to get to know each other at a

Zuckerberg chose to use blue while creating Facebook because of his color blindness, and the logo and color became a huge part of Facebook’s success.

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