Stewf via Flickr Back in 2004, Andrew McCollum designed Facebook's first logo for his Harvard classmate, Mark Zuckerberg. We wondered who the mysterious face was, or if it was even a real person. Indeed, it was. The face is that of Al Pacino.

Who Face was first uploaded on Facebook?

1. Al Pacino was the first “face” on Facebook. A very early iteration of the site displayed a header image featuring a man's face obscured behind binary code. The identity of the man could not be seen clearly, but it later came to light that the face was that of acclaimed actor Al Pacino.

What was the first Facebook post?

On February 4, 2004, back when "Hey Ya!" was still topping the charts and global dominion was but a glimmer in a young Mark Zuckerberg's eye, the 19-year-old Harvard sophomore and his roommates unleashed their creation, TheFacebook.com, on humanity.