Some Of Facebook's Best Features Were Once Hackathon Projects (FB)

It seems that almost every major feature on Facebook started as a hackathon project. Hackathons are all-night coding sessions where engineers get amped up on caffeine, brainstorm ideas, and build anything they want. There's just one rule for a Facebook hackathon: You can't work on the same thing that you work on during the day. Facebook engineering manager Pedram Keyani is often mentioned as the guy who made hackathons a tradition at Facebook. The first official hackathon took place in 2007 afte...