Facebook was born on February 4, 2004. The rest, you know, Mark Zuckerberg’s site really revolutionized the world of social networking – and spawned one of the best movies of all time, David Fincher’s The Social Network.
Its logo, that iconic blue ‘f’, is definitely out of the question. Also, why blue? According to the New Yorker, Mark Zuckerberg is red-green color blind, meaning the color he sees best is blue…
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If this color has never changed, the appearance of the logo has evolved. The very first iteration of the site, when it was still called “Facebook,” featured an image of a man’s face hidden behind binary code—a home page that remained unchanged until 2007. And this face, many found it to be so. Al Pacino until another candidate was mentioned…
It was Andrew McCollum who created this first logo designed for his classmate at Harvard. Mark ZuckerbergAnd according to writer David Kirkpatrick, it should be a man Al Pacino As he wrote in his book The Facebook effect In 2010: “Zuckerberg’s friend and classmate, Andrew McCollum, created the logo using an image of Al Pacino he found online and covered it with a blur of ones and zeroes, the basic components of digital media.“
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But 20 years later, the question arises again, as some claim that it is actually American musician and singer Peter Wolff who is behind the logo. You’ll have to turn to Reddit or Quora for some clues, but the evidence provided seems overwhelming, as you can see below.
In the end, the debate was not officially resolved. So what do you think? Al Pacino or Peter Wolf ? We will give you a decision.
And Shrek in all of this?
In 2001, the world discovered Shrek, the first part of the saga that became a cult and the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Remember little Lord Farquaad asking our beloved green ogre to save Princess Fiona for him and especially his logo…
Does this remind you of anything? Yes, here too the theories have been going well ever since Shrek Released three years before Facebook was born… Mark Zuckerberg Would he be a fan of the movie it was inspired by? Who knows !
coincidence? We may never know!
Rediscover the movie about the creation of Facebook, the social network streaming on Netflix. The first three installments of the Shrek saga, on the other hand, are available on Netflix and Prime Video.
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