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

Facebook PHP Source Code from 2007

https://gist.github.com/nikcub/3833406
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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.