Which 2004 social networking site was originally called 'Thefacebook'? Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg launched TheFacebook on February 4, 2004, while he was a Harvard student. The site initially served as an online student directory for Harvard College, allowing users to create profiles and connect with classmates. Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes helped build and expand the early service.
The network soon spread from Harvard to other universities in the United States and Canada. In 2004, Napster co-founder Sean Parker became the company's president, and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel provided an early investment. The company dropped “The” from its name in 2005 after acquiring the Facebook.com domain.
The name referred to a “face book,” a directory of students' names and photographs. A common mix-up is MySpace, which was also a major social network of the 2000s but was founded earlier, in 2003. LinkedIn launched in 2003 as a professional networking service, while Twitter began in 2006, so neither was originally known as TheFacebook.