Life Before Facebook

I'm so emeshed in my Facebook world that I can hardly remember Life Before Facebook. It's such a convenient and handy thing to have around - one place for practically all your contacts (and more joining every day). I triple love it (yes, I know you're shocked to hear that). Last night I was wondering how Facebook came to be - where did the original idea come from? What were the various incarnations of the site? Is the person who thought it up happy with the results? Do they have an inordinate amount of friends? Do they have "master access" where they can see everyone's page? How does it work? I would love to be the creator of Facebook (as apparently I'm already the President - oh wait, maybe I'm just a Facebook missionary who likes to preach its good merits all over the world), except the site would, of course, be pink (not blue). I wonder what other changes I could make? The possibilities boggle the mind.