[zalew]

I'm more like: sooo, this dude didn't know crap about the internet and launched one of the biggest websites in the world. #fml

[rgbrenner]

this is what I was thinking too. maybe this explains why it was written in PHP? :)

[mseebach]

No. I have no numbers, but I'd say we're looking at 80-90% of all websites written in dorm rooms in 2003 were written in PHP. Most of the rest in classic ASP (which was barely 'classic' yet in 2003).

For scale, Rails was released in June 2004, four months after Facebook's launch.

[subsystem]

Python was even seen as esoteric back then.

http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html