[alecco]

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

[myvoiceismypass]

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)

[lagniappe]

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

[JuniperMesos]

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

[orzig]

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

[lagniappe]

I'd prefer you focus your attention elsewhere

[nmfisher]

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