because users had to register as
themselves—they could not create
In the house in Palo Alto, Moskovitz, two
interns, and other programmers involved in
TheFacebook project joined Zuckerberg. They all
shared the rent. They spent the summer in front
of their computers. They mapped code with bright
magic markers on whiteboards, and littered their
floors with empty pizza boxes and computer cartons.
Stephen Haggerty, one of Zuckerberg’s interns,
said, “To call Facebook a company at that point was
generous . . . Did we do anything else besides sit
in front of our computers? Mark had a girlfriend,
but after a while she wasn’t around.”2 They were all
committed to developing their online social network,
rather than pursuing their own social relationships.