Facebook (originally known as Facebook) was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard student, in January 2004 as a way to contact other students who attend Harvard University. After completing the website, Zuckerberg told a few friends about it and one friend suggested he send it to the three hundred people on the Kirkland House online mailing list. Over the next 24 hours, approximately 1,200 to 1,500 students "joined Facebook," representing more than half of the universities' student population in a month. By March 2004, Facebook had expanded to students at Stanford, Columbia and Yale, eventually expanding to all Ivy League and Boston-area schools and gradually reaching universities in Canada and the United States . After purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000, the company dropped the "The" from the name. In September 2005, Facebook launched a high school version which, at the time, required an invitation to join and was considered the "logical next step." step” of Zuckerberg. In October 2005, Facebook expanded to twenty-one universities....