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A s seen in themovie The Social Network , Facebookwas pri- marily the brainchild of Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg. While he would later develop the idea with his friends Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes, and Dustin Moskovitz, Mark developed a few ideas that became Facebook on his own. Howdid Mark get on the path to such game-changing tech to start with? He actually started at an early age, thanks to the tech- nology in his father Edward’s dental office. Edward’s dental practice featured early computer technology, par- ticularly when it came to X-rays and organizing the office. That experi- ence with technology rubbed off on his son Mark, helping to shape his interests early in his life. Edward introduced Mark to computer program- ming. He showed his son how to program using an Atari computer, an ear- ly, simple kind of home computer, much less powerful than the computers

WORDS TO UNDERSTAND boarding school a type of high school at which students live full-time during the school year brainchild an invention incorporate sold shares of stock to become a publicly traded company

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