Facebook: from Harvard dorm to scandal-plagued social media titan
In 2003, 19-year-old computer whiz Mark Zuckerberg begins working out of his Harvard dormitory room on an online network aimed at connecting the prestigious US university's students.On February 4, 2004, he launches thefacebook.com with three friends. Membership is opened up to other colleges around North America. Zuckerberg leaves Harvard and moves to California's Silicon Valley. The new company receives its first major outside investment of $500,000 from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, and officially becomes Facebook in…