Happy Birthday Facebook
Remember TheFacebook.com?, When TheFacebook launched on this day, Feb. 4, in 2004, it was for a limited audience and offered limited capabilities  and, the first time the site showed up in TIME, the writer had an appropriately limited amount to say about it. The site's first mention in TIME was later that year, in a story about online dating for the college set, in which Facebook's founders insisted that their site didn't belong in that group, Of course, that iteration of Facebook didn't last long. The "the" went away the college-only restrictions went away the user figures expanded  to a whopping 864 million a day, as of September  and the website appeared nearly 800 times more in the pages of TIME, plus about 2,000 online mentions. And counting.