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New Delhi: Mark Zuckerberg comes from an upper middle class family in which he is the only son and he has three sisters. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born to Edward Zuckerberg (a dentist) and his mother, Karen Zuckerberg (a psychiatrist) on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York. Mark and his three sisters, Randi, Donna, and Arielle, were raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York, a sleepy, well-off town on the bank of the Hudson River.Mark Zuckerberg attended Ardsley High School, and then transferred to the Phillips Exeter Academy. He performed well in classical studies and science. By his high school graduation, Zuckerberg could read and write: French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek.Zuckerberg began writing software when he was in middle school. At that time Zuckerberg used to create computer games based on what they drew for him. In an interview, Zuckerberg recalled, "I had a bunch of friends who were artists. They'd come over, draw stuff, and I'd build a game out of it." Zuckerberg was a naturally gifted kid.His computer tutor, David Newman said, “He [Mark Zuckerberg] was a prodigy. Sometimes it was tough to stay ahead of him.” As soon as Zuckerberg started at Harvard, he was known around campus as a programming prodigy. At one of the frat parties, he met his current girlfriend Priscilla Chan. During his college days, he made “Facemash” that showed pictures of people that went to Harvard and the user got to rate which person was “hotter.” Within days, Harvard shut the website down because the sites popularity caused the servers to crash. The site was supposed to be “for fun” but it was such a success that Zuckerberg realized the potential he had to create a multi-million dollar website.Shortly after the Facemash incident, Mark Zuckerberg began working on a new site that would afford the students at Harvard the opportunity to contact one another via an online website. Entitled The Facebook, the site launched from his dorm room on February 15, 2004, and quickly became the talk of the campus -- with more than half of Harvard's students signing up for the service within two weeks.(Images courtesy: Time)