LO1-My Inspiration

The word “computational projects” was first started off as questioning myself what it defines as. Computational defines as “the use of computers”, therefore I assumed any program or product that has been created by the technical ability of computers such as coding.

            Facebook.com; an online social networking service, allows users to sign up for free profiles and it connects friends, family and people through online. It also allows users to share pictures, music, videos, and posts to anyone who has signed up in the website.

            The founder of Facebook is a well-known billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg has started off making the website with a group of his classmates (Eduardo Savarin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes) who he has met in Harvard. His classmates included a programmer, spokesman, and investor in the website.

Zuckerberg got the idea of Facebook by first making a site in Harvard which helped University students get to know one another better through online. It only took 2 weeks for Zuckerberg to build the first version of Facebook. However, this did not come at ease since he was accused for stealing the “idea” of an intended social networking site called Harvard connection.

            Facebook.com was developed by a program called PHP. PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor and it’s a scripting language used for the development of web applications.

            Facebook’s future goal still lies in the reason why they built the website: connection. The main objective of Facebook is to give people the power to build community and bringing the world closer together. I admire the power Facebook brings to the world- enabling users to connect with the world easier than ever before and bringing comminutes together.