Mark Zuckerberg

Founded in 1636, Harvard has shaped presidents, leaders, and thinkers for nearly 400 years. A School Older Than America Did you know Harvard is older than America itself? In 1636, America wasn’t even an independent country yet. No cars. No electric lights. No TV. Most places were just small villages in wilderness. But some people thought: we need a school where young people learn to think and lead. That’s how Harvard University started. It was in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Just nine students. One teacher. One building. Smaller than your class. ...

What if you could step inside the internet — walk around in it, meet your friends there, and build anything you can imagine? What If You Could Step Inside the Screen You look at screens every day. Phones, tablets, computers — we swipe our fingers around, look at photos, watch videos, and chat with friends. But have you ever thought: what if one day, instead of just looking at a screen, you could walk right into it? ...

Facebook connected your college friends. Then it connected the whole world — and changed how we share, shop, and even think. When Phones Became Everything Back in 2010, people used Facebook on their computers. But iPhones and Android phones were getting more and more popular, and people started spending more time on their phones. Here was the problem — Facebook’s website was really hard to use on a phone. The text was tiny. The buttons were impossible to tap. Photos took forever to load. ...

What if one college student built a website in his dorm room — and it connected the entire world? The Idea in the Dorm Room In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg was a sophomore at Harvard University. He was a computer science student who loved building things. Not with wood or metal — with code. He’d been programming since middle school, and by the time he got to Harvard, he could build a website faster than most people could write an essay. ...