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Facebook was called TheFacebook at the beginning.

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When it was launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and Harvard colleagues, the site was called TheFacebook. In 2005, the company bought the domain facebook.com for 200,000 dollars and officially adopted the name Facebook.

Source: Facebook

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