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How is Facebook a technology? It's a database-backed website, complete with PHP and MySQL. What innovation is intrinsic to anything about Facebook?
by niels_olson 10y ago
How is Facebook a technology? It's a database-backed website, complete with PHP and MySQL. What innovation is intrinsic to anything about Facebook?
- sangnoir 10y agoWait a sec - you're getting caught up in the minutae. OP said > This is what we get for designing systems with a low number (typically one) privileged centralized controlling body. The successive replies morphed the word into protocol and then technology, and here we are arguing how Facebook is in any way innovative in order to qualify as a technology - an argument totally disconnected from the one upthread.