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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reveals his first email ID that he used to create his first-ever profile on Facebook. Zuckerberg made the revelation on Threads, a counterpart of Instagram while replying to a funny post by a user.

All the frenzy started with an artist's post, “I’m you had to have a .edu email address to join Facebook years old.” To which, the Facebook founder reacted with, “Real ones know. First account was mzuckerb@fas.harvard.edu.”

It is widely known that Zuckerberg was the first person to create an account on Facebook but he was not the first one to have an ID. Apparently, three more IDs were created on the platform before Zuckerberg’s for testing, as per the Guardian.

The other three IDs were later deleted, hence, making Zuckerberg the first person to have a Facebook ID.

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Chris Hughes and Dustin Moscovitz, both Facebook co-founders, are the second and third persons to have a Facebook ID, respectively.

Take a look at the exchange here.

Post by @zuck

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Soon netizens started reacting to Zuckerberg’s reply with comments like “time flies” and some started sharing their first email IDs.

“Pretty sure I took an adult education class at the local university so I could get a .edu account at least partially so I could meet this requirement. (Still the only college credit I have today.)” shared a user.

Another added, “I remember being a senior in high school and the thing I was most excited about was graduating so I could finally apply for a Facebook account with my college email. It was all I cared about at the time.”

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A third posted, “So many people will now test that email.” A fourth wrote, “I entered college in fall 2004. I remember when we had to switch Facebook from our .edu addresses to the accounts we had now! I think late 2005 or 2006 or so?”

Facebook was launched in February 2004, almost two decades ago with the website name- “thefacebook.com.”

In its initial years, the platform was started as a “directory of information for college students.” As time went on, several changes were made after its first launch and over the years, Facebook emerged as one of the most used social networking sites worldwide.

Apart from Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook was co-founded by his classmates at Harvard- Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum, and Chris Hughes.

(With inputs from agencies)