[susam]

I attended a talk by Rasmus Lerdorf at a FOSS conference in 2006. It has been a long time, so I remember only a few things from the talk, but one thing I remember him talking about is how people love to complain about PHP, often on forums that are themselves written in PHP.

[chuckadams]

    #include <stdstroustrupquote>

Rasmus also admits that he didn't really know what he was doing when he created PHP, and that it's a bit surprising that PHP has stayed as compatible as it has. I kind of respect him more for that than I once used to.

[internet2000]

Did someone reply to him with this meme? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...

[mh-]

No, in 2006 it was still considered poor form to reply with a low-effort meme phrase instead of meaningfully criticizing his position with your own.

[comex]

Depends entirely on the forum.

I remember it being somewhat common for people to make forum posts consisting entirely of a joke image. However, they weren’t called memes at the time as the word had yet to be popularized.

[hluska]

It was not correct to interrupt a talk with a meme and it never has been.

[DonHopkins]

But it's always been correct to interrupt a discussion on a PHP forum about PHP security by breaking into Rasmus's account and posting an ironic meme under his name.