Most of us have heard of, used, or currently have an account on the world’s biggest social network: Facebook. But in 2004, there were 4 users. Four Harvard University students making what amounted to a student directory, much like Grove City College’s “Glance” website. As it was called then, the Photo Address Book was just a Harvard thing. But then it was just a college thing. and then it was just an American thing…

As of 2018, 2 billion people, a whopping 2/5 of the world’s population, access Facebook every month. What started out as a college directory is now the world’s biggest link between humans who have no way to physically communicate. And only in a matter of 14 years. The level of determination and entrepreneurship values shown by Mark Zuckerberg (one of the four original programmers and Facebook’s current majority shareholder) is incredible, as both this site and its photography-based cousin, Instagram (also the second-biggest social network) reach so much of the world but were programmed in a dorm room. This can show us all that with skill, determination, and good business skills, our ideas and dreams are not funny or unrealistic: they just have to be realized.