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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by joeblau on Thursday January 30, 2020 @12:48PM (#22193442)
> Worth preserving as part of Internet history.

Can't Facebook just issue a takedown request and have these files removed?

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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by ceejayoz on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:27PM (#22195164)
It wouldn't be worth the cost of the letter.

This code's as valuable as a Blockbuster card by now.

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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by veeralpatel979 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @05:11PM (#22196349)
How would it help them?

I _highly_ doubt they are running this code in production today.

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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by riffraff on Thursday January 30, 2020 @12:51PM (#22193465)
what for? It's not like it would be particularly dangerous to see code which is 13 year old.
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by munk-a on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:39PM (#22193979)
Pretty sure all their code is intensely different now - they did write the HHVM engine in 2011 and I wouldn't be surprised if they ported as much logic as possible to that and added strict typing over it all.
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by ocdtrekkie on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:29PM (#22193842)
It’s worth noting that Windows occasionally is inflicted by discovered vulnerabilities that are over twenty years old.

Not sure how applicable that would be to Facebook’s codebase over this much time. But worth noting.

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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by giarc on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:36PM (#22193930)
Just look at Swift and all the Cocoa classes. Many are prefixed with NS, which comes from the NeXTSTEP days.
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by fkfaduc on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:45PM (#22194714)
I'm not even sure they could do that. What would be the difference between that and some megacorp issuing a takedown-request for an internal document leaked by the press?
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