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0 pointsalecco3mo ago0 comments

Zuckerberg? The genius coder according to the movie. Programming in PHP.

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At the time your choices for dynamic server web apps were php or perl. The LAMP stack (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP or Perl) was very popular back then (early to mid 00s)

lagniappe3mo ago

Are you new? PHP was the standard for that type of app at the time.

JuniperMesos3mo ago

And that was really bad, although Mark Zuckerberg himself can hardly be blamed for that.

orzig3mo ago

Your point is 100% correct, but for the sake of our discourse please strive to be more polite!

lagniappe3mo ago

I'd prefer you focus your attention elsewhere

nmfisher3mo ago

There are numerous criticisms you can level at Zuckerberg, but writing the first version of Facebook in PHP is not one of them.

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myvoiceismypass3mo ago

At the time your choices for dynamic server web apps were php or perl. The LAMP stack (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP or Perl) was very popular back then (early to mid 00s)

lagniappe3mo ago

Are you new? PHP was the standard for that type of app at the time.

JuniperMesos3mo ago

And that was really bad, although Mark Zuckerberg himself can hardly be blamed for that.

orzig3mo ago

Your point is 100% correct, but for the sake of our discourse please strive to be more polite!

lagniappe3mo ago

I'd prefer you focus your attention elsewhere

nmfisher3mo ago

There are numerous criticisms you can level at Zuckerberg, but writing the first version of Facebook in PHP is not one of them.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse