Not long before launching Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg created a "hot or not" type website on his college campus. What was his controversial site called?

Facemash made quite a splash in its short life. Created by Zuckerberg in a state of post-breakup inebriation, the site allowed users to vote on the attractiveness of fellow students — whose photos he had acquired by hacking into Harvard's network servers and then downloading the images without permission. The site caught on like wildfire, gaining so many users at once that it crashed the school's entire computer system. As reported by The Harvard Crimson, Zuckerberg was accused of “breaching security, violating copyrights and violating individual privacy." The school allowed him to stay.

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