History of Meta (formerly Facebook): From the Birth of SNS to the Challenge of the Metaverse Space

The journey from the SNS empire to the metaverse and AI

1. The Birth of Facebook

In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in his Harvard University dorm room.

  graph TD
    FB["Facebook Core"] --> IG["Instagram (Acquired 2012)"]
    FB --> WA["WhatsApp (Acquired 2014)"]
    FB --> OR["Oculus VR (Acquired 2014)"]

2. The Challenge of the Metaverse

In 2021, the company changed its name to “Meta” and announced a massive investment in virtual reality (the metaverse).