Mark Zuckerberg revisits dorm where he started Facebook, live-streams visit
His visit to his old dorm room was for the first time since his departure 13 years ago.
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook Inc, revisited his dorm room at the Harvard University’s Kirkland House on Tuesday. His visit was live-streamed on his Facebook account, where he showed almost 85,000 viewers his Facebook Live feature.
The video showed the social network king talking at length, chatting with current students in the room and told them stories about his time at Harvard, where he initiated the idea of starting Facebook. “While I was here, I just loved building all these different social tools,” Zuckerberg said in the video.
Zuckerberg started Facebook from his room H33, which has since been renamed as the most coveted dorm room in America. Mark dropped out of school to move to Silicon Valley and build the company.
In the video, Zuckerberg said that his visit to his old dorm room was for the first time since his departure 13 years ago. He is also slated to give a commencement address to Harvard on Thursday, where he will finally be obtaining an honorary degree.
In a shocking revelation, recode revealed that Mark Zuckerberg had built a chat network called ZuckNet, long before Facebook was developed. The report also mentions that he was ‘dethroned’ by AOL in the initial days.
Zuckerberg has been building tech products longer than we knew it. The Facebook CEO had earlier built a chat network as a chat service for his family and for his dad’s dental business during his pre-teen days in New York City. He was around 10 or 12 years at the time and was beaten by rival AOL Instant Messenger. While AOL was the only messenger everyone used at that time, it is today that Zuckerberg owns the two huge messaging services — Messenger and WhatsApp, which have more than 1.2 billion users.