It’s funny to think that 12 years ago this week Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook. With the help of his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, Zuckerberg gave birth to a social media phenomenon.

Zuckerberg and co. had initially limited the website’s membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. After that it exploded, and in 2006 anyone over the age of 13 was allowed to sign up. Now with 1.4 billion users, Zuckerberg’s original creation ‘Thefacebook’ is now a totally different beast.

But can you remember what Facebook looked like back in those early days? Nah, me neither, so here are some screenshots to remind you just what it was that got the world so addicted.

It didn’t have half the clever features we associate with the modern Facebook, no News Feed, no ability to like, no Facebook Wall (this wasn’t introduced until September 2014) – you couldn’t even post photos (this was introduced in September 2015).

Thankfully nowadays Facebook is so bloody technical and bursting with features that the world’s population is caught in its mechanical grip. I can’t imagine a world where I couldn’t see what my casual acquaintances in high school are having for dinner.

God bless you Facebook!