Mark Zuckerberg the Facebook CEO Turns 31 on Thursday
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also wished Zuckerberg on his birthday. He wrote in a post on his official Facebook page :"Mark, I wish you a very Happy Birthday! Your innovative zeal has left a deep impact on society and you remain an inspiration for the world. I warmly recall our meeting a few months ago. I pray that you are blessed with a long life filled with good health."
Zuckerberg is best known as one of the five co-founders of the social networking website Facebook. Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Inc.His personal wealth, as of March 2015, is estimated to be $35.1 billion. Zuckerberg receives a one-dollar salary as CEO of Facebook.
Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software in middle school. His father taught him Atari BASIC Programming in the 1990s, and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately. Newman calls him a "prodigy", adding that it was "tough to stay ahead of him".
Zuckerberg took a graduate course in the subject at Mercy College near his home while still in high school. He enjoyed developing computer programs, especially communication tools and games.
In one such program, since his father's dental practice was operated from their home, he built a software program he called "ZuckNet" that allowed all the computers between the house and dental office to communicate with each other. It is considered a "primitive" version of AOL's Instant Messenger, which came out the following year.
