Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Eliot Zuckerberg; Dobbs Ferri, Westchester County, 1984) Empresario y programador informático estadounidense. Creador y presidente de la comunidad virtual Facebook, en el año 2008, con tan sólo veintitrés años de edad, se convirtió en el multimillonario más joven de la lista que publica anualmente la revista Forbes. Nacido en el seno de una familia judía, su pasión por la informática se manifestó muy pronto, y ya a los doce años de edad comenzó a programar. Cursó estudios en el Ards ley High Chol y la Phillips Exeter Academia, y en 2002 ingresó en la Universidad de Harvard, Massachusetts. Dos años más tarde, a principios de febrero de 2004, con tan sólo diecinueve años y junto a sus compañeros de habitación en la universidad, lanzó un nuevo sitio web, la red social Facebook.

Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software as a child in middle school. His father taught him Atari BASIC Programming in the 1990s, and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately. Newman calls him a "prodigy," adding that it was "tough to stay ahead of him." Zuckerberg also took a graduate course in the subject at Mercy College near his home while he was still in high school. He enjoyed developing computer programs, especially communication tools and games. In one such program, since his father's dental practice was operated from their home, he built a software program he called "ZuckNet," which allowed all the computers between the house and dental office to communicate by pinging each other. It is considered a "primitive" version of AOL's Instant Messenger, which came out the following