February 4, 2004: Facebook Goes Live

February 4, 2004, 20 years ago: Facebook is launched in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg, who screwed over Divya Narendra and the twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. This was, of course, before Zuckerberg screwed over America by helping Cambridge Analytica help steal the 2016 Presidential election.

Narendra did all right for himself, having founded SumZero, an online investment company. The Winklevoss Twins got rich, too, even more so in the recent cryptocurrency craze that shows no signs of fading.

Facebook's IPO, launched on May 18, 2012 at $38.00, dropped to $27.72 by June 1, with no help at all from Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. But it rebounded: On December 26, 2023, a single share of Facebook stock closed at $354.83.

On December 7, 2018, the Internet series Epic Rap Battles of History had a battle between Zuckerberg (played by series co-founder Nice Peter) and Elon Musk (EpicLloyd, the other co-founder). At the time, Zuckerberg seemed like more of a villain. In hindsight, that role is now a toss-up.