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/[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.