Languages that Tech-Gurus Started with

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 13 February 2012, 23:17 IST   |    6 Comments
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Bangalore: Ever wonder where the biggest inventions started out, and by whom? Here is a list of programming languages, and frameworks that are behind some of the greatest technologies.

Facebook

Name of Developer: Mark Zuckerberg

Year:2004

Framework or Programing Language: PHP

This social networking site, which is the largest in the world, uses the PHP hypertext processor that is used for server-side scripting. Mark Zuckerberg wrote the site’s code and launched then named Thefacebook in 2004, when he was still a student at Harvard. His idea for Thefacebook came from his first attempt in late 2003, named Facemash. Facemash was later shut down by the universities’ administration.



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