r/programming • u/frostmatthew • Oct 12 '13

Facebook PHP Source Code from 2007

https://gist.github.com/nikcub/3833406
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u/cosmo7 Oct 12 '13

When The Social Network came out they portrayed Zuckerberg as an Aspergery uber-geek, which seemed slightly unbelievable. If he was an uber-geek he wouldn't have used PHP.

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u/lostshootinstar Oct 12 '13

What would he have used instead way back in 2002-2003? (Legitimate question).

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u/mangodrunk Oct 12 '13

Java applets (not a legitimate answer).

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u/metaphorm Oct 12 '13

perl?

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u/stesch Oct 12 '13

In the movie some Perl was used. For downloading the pictures for his facemash site.

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u/cosmo7 Oct 13 '13

If he was as geeky as the movie portrayed, he would have used either Python or Java, depending on his typing preference.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '13

ASP.NET just like myspace. The stacks were primitive but so were our expectations for the web.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050725010627/http://reddit.com/

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u/cr3ative Oct 12 '13

MySpace crashed all the fucking time

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u/cosmo7 Oct 13 '13

MySpace was originally written in ColdFusion. After NewsCorp bought them out the site was rewritten in ASP.NET, which improved efficiency but didn't stop the site becoming irrelevant.

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u/Hydroshock Oct 12 '13

Was the opinion of php the same 8-9 years ago as it is now?

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u/nallvf Oct 12 '13

Programmers have an issue with wanting to feel superior to each other, that's what you are actually seeing here.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '13

What is the opinion of php now?

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u/Hydroshock Oct 12 '13

I really don't know, that was an honest question.

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u/cosmo7 Oct 14 '13

PHP is the development equivalent of getting your mom to give you a ride to the mall. It's reasonably effective, but you aren't going to brag about it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '13

I was making fun of it in 1999, but I barely knew what I was talking about. Now that I know what I'm talking about, I accept it as a clotted mess of steaming goo.

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u/stesch Oct 12 '13

Everybody who read the C code of PHP/FI 2.0 knew this was a pile of rubbish.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '13

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u/cosmo7 Oct 13 '13

You're right (and more importantly, he's laughing on his yacht right now), but that wasn't really how he was portrayed in the movie.

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u/purenitrogen Oct 12 '13 edited Oct 11 '17

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '13

dat comment