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0 pointszalew13y ago0 comments

I'm more like: sooo, this dude didn't know crap about the internet and launched one of the biggest websites in the world. #fml

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rgbrenner13y ago

this is what I was thinking too. maybe this explains why it was written in PHP? :)

mseebach13y ago

No. I have no numbers, but I'd say we're looking at 80-90% of all websites written in dorm rooms in 2003 were written in PHP. Most of the rest in classic ASP (which was barely 'classic' yet in 2003).

For scale, Rails was released in June 2004, four months after Facebook's launch.

subsystem13y ago

Python was even seen as esoteric back then.

http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

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