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I doubt that first version of Facebook should be considered some pinnacle of engineering.


Zuckerberg is still under 30, so the current version should still count.


TIL he's been writing it all by himself until now


Cooperation doesn't make a feat less impressive.


AFAIK, Facebook is the most used software in the world. That is some achievement. Even technically - serving so many people is kinda mind blowing


> Facebook is the most used software in the world.

This is very obviously not true. For example, more people use PHP than use Facebook (supposing that there is at least one user of PHP who does not use Facebook, such as e.g. myself). I'll let you construct additional examples for yourself.

And if, btw, you argue that the users of Facebook don't "use" PHP, then I'll argue that they don't "use" Facebook in exactly the same way, since their web browser (or mobile client) is an intermediary.


So was Windows 3.1 at the time...


You are missing the point.




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