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Comment by lokar

7 hours ago

Also, the implementation and infrastructure was a total shit show.

True, its downtimes predated the Twitter fail whale.

Interestingly, the first version used ASP.NET, visible in the .aspx domains, which really deviated from other Google tech.

  • What is (and was) Google tech? I naively thought Google didn't have a praised stack.

    • Back then it was mostly Java, Python and C++.

      They even made a Java-based framework that would generate Javascript, GWT. Orkut was rewritten to use in 2009.

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  • Yeah, internally it was, uh, an issue.

    Just before launch there was a attempt to hide that it was google.