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I think most people assumed the MySpace guys knew just enough PHP to get MySpace off the ground and then got lucky. It's interesting to see there's a little more to it than that.

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Dialing into a no password-system is hardly any tougher than knowing a bit of PHP.

What's tough about it is that he was 14 and it was the 80's... way before it was popular to take pot shots at PHP.

Actually, it was Coldfusion. But you're right on point.

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