I hosted a phpBB forum as a kid in the early 2000s. 15 years later I joined a marketplace startup that was doing 10,000 transactions a day. Built as a PHP mon

I hosted a phpBB forum as a kid in the early 2000s. 15 years later I joined a marketplace startup that was doing 10,000 transactions a day. Built as a PHP monolith. I was sooooo confused at first. “PHP??? That strange language I used to host a forum is powering this app??” Turns out the founding engineer was self-taught and PHP had the most tutorials or something lol