History Of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg was a Harvard computer science student when he, along with classmates Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes invented Facebook. Amazingly, the idea for the website, now the world's most popular social networking page, was inspired by a botched effort to get Internet users to rate one another's photos. Hot or Not?: The Origin of Facebook In 2003, Zuckerberg, a second-year student at Harvard, wrote the software for a website called Facemash. He put his computer science skills to questionable use by hacking into Harvard's security network, where he copied the student ID images used by the dormitories and used them to populate his new website. Website visitors could use Zuckerberg's site to compare two student photos side-by-side and determine who was "hot" and who was "not." Facemash opened on October 28, 2003—and close...
The History of Boxing Boxing is likely of Boxingely one of the oldest sports in the world. As a means of survival, our ancient ancestors likely openly fought one another, just as animals today fight tooth and nail for food and for mates. While it might not have been the same standardized type of boxing that we see in rings today, surely, they must have come to fisticuffs (fistfights) more than once in pursuit of a full stomach or a mate. It did, however, quickly become a sport. Fighting as a sport is as old as civilization itself, with very real records of boxing matches in writings from both Egypt and Mesopotamia (two of the world’s oldest civilizations). One notable reference to early boxing is in the Iliad. During Patroklus’s funeral games, two characters reportedly have a “prizefight.” In Ancient Greece, boxing (like most things), was probably more ceremonial than it was a true sport like we think of today and did not have the same kinds ...