Comment by susam
1 day ago
I attended a talk by Rasmus Lerdorf at a FOSS conference in 2006. It has been a long time, so I remember only a few things from the talk, but one thing I remember him talking about is how people love to complain about PHP, often on forums that are themselves written in PHP.
Rasmus also admits that he didn't really know what he was doing when he created PHP, and that it's a bit surprising that PHP has stayed as compatible as it has. I kind of respect him more for that than I once used to.
Did someone reply to him with this meme? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
No, in 2006 it was still considered poor form to reply with a low-effort meme phrase instead of meaningfully criticizing his position with your own.
Depends entirely on the forum.
I remember it being somewhat common for people to make forum posts consisting entirely of a joke image. However, they weren’t called memes at the time as the word had yet to be popularized.
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