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by gilbetron 1967 days ago
Git wasn't built in a weekend: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2015/04/10-years-of-git...

And git wasn't even built in 10 days, as Linus has said elsewhere. The core structure was, kind of. But there's been a large effort on top of that.

And the idea that Facebook was built in a weekend is just completely wrong. Sure, some basic Facebook-ish app was created over a weekend, sorta.