When launched officially in 2004, the social networking site was originally called “TheFacebook”. The company gave up the “The” from its name after purchasing the facebook.com domain in August 2005, for which it paid $200,000. Now, if you consider FaceMash to be a first version of Facebook (we’re talking about the “Hot or Not” social site that inspired Zuckerberg to build Facebook), you could say “FaceMash” was the original name of the renowned platform.