https://medium.com/@the_economist/facebook-turns-15-7710e8b66359 > Photo: Chesnot/Getty ImagesOn February 4th 2004 a young website with a baby-blue banner was born. Founded in a dormitory at Harvard, TheFacebook.com tapped into people’s instinctive desire to see and be seen. Few guessed how successful it would become. In 2008 Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who had bought the social-networking rival MySpace, called Facebook the “flavour of… > Medium curates expert stories from leading publishers exclusively for members (with no ads!). Register for a free account to begin your member preview.