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Product
Year Made
Primary Language
Language/Framework Founded
Hypothesis on why did they choose it ?


MS DOS
1982
8086 Assembly
1972
Microsoft had to deliver a new operating system for IBM in limited time. Instead of building from scratch , they modified the 8 bit CP/M for 16 bit PCs.


Yahoo Directory
1994
Html
1991
No definitive article on the initial architecture of Yahoo but based on architecture of related WWW Virtual Library, it can be guessed it was pure static pre generated html.


Amazon.com
July 1995
Perl
1987
At that time, websites were text heavy and perl was possibly the easiest way to manipulate text


Google.com
July 1996
Python
1990
In 1996, python was probably the easiest way to crawl the web as compared to any other language. At it's heart, google is a crawler


Youtube.com
2005
Php
1995
By 2005, Php was the reigning champion for web programming.


Facebook.com
2003
Php
1995
In 2003, Php was the reigning champion for web programming.


LinkedIn.com
2002
Java Servlet
2002
Around 2002-2003, Sun was spending a record 500 m $ in marketing java. This created an ecosystem of performant backend.


Docusign
2003
dot net
2002
Docusign started as docutouch in 2000. At that time, they were signing microsoft word. Hence, they continued leveraging their strengths in microsoft stack.


Paypal
2002
dot net
2002
Paypals payment code started as client side application and migrating to dot net for the web world was easy.


Shopify.com
2006
Ruby on Rails
2004
They built the entire website in two months time for their own store and then decided to create a platform.


Twitter.com
2006
Ruby on Rails
2004
The app was rapidly prototyped in a few days by a few friends at work and ROR was the fastest way to prototype in 2006


Dropbox.com
2008
Python
1990
At its core, dropbox is a distributed file server. Dropbox founders liked python. They needed to work well both as desktop and web server and python fits the bill better than ruby or php at that time.


UberCab.com
2009
Python
1990
Around 2005 saw the release of Django one of the post popular web frameworks


Stripe.com
2010
Ruby on Rails
2010
In Patrik's own words, there was little to choose between Ruby and Python . They knew ruby better . They also punted on solving scalability problems.
Product	Year Made	Primary Language	Language/Framework Founded	Hypothesis on why did they choose it ?
MS DOS	1982	8086 Assembly	1972	Microsoft had to deliver a new operating system for IBM in limited time. Instead of building from scratch , they modified the 8 bit CP/M for 16 bit PCs.
Yahoo Directory	1994	Html	1991	No definitive article on the initial architecture of Yahoo but based on architecture of related WWW Virtual Library, it can be guessed it was pure static pre generated html.
Amazon.com	July 1995	Perl	1987	At that time, websites were text heavy and perl was possibly the easiest way to manipulate text
Google.com	July 1996	Python	1990	In 1996, python was probably the easiest way to crawl the web as compared to any other language. At it's heart, google is a crawler
Youtube.com	2005	Php	1995	By 2005, Php was the reigning champion for web programming.
Facebook.com	2003	Php	1995	In 2003, Php was the reigning champion for web programming.
LinkedIn.com	2002	Java Servlet	2002	Around 2002-2003, Sun was spending a record 500 m $ in marketing java. This created an ecosystem of performant backend.
Docusign	2003	dot net	2002	Docusign started as docutouch in 2000. At that time, they were signing microsoft word. Hence, they continued leveraging their strengths in microsoft stack.
Paypal	2002	dot net	2002	Paypals payment code started as client side application and migrating to dot net for the web world was easy.
Shopify.com	2006	Ruby on Rails	2004	They built the entire website in two months time for their own store and then decided to create a platform.
Twitter.com	2006	Ruby on Rails	2004	The app was rapidly prototyped in a few days by a few friends at work and ROR was the fastest way to prototype in 2006
Dropbox.com	2008	Python	1990	At its core, dropbox is a distributed file server. Dropbox founders liked python. They needed to work well both as desktop and web server and python fits the bill better than ruby or php at that time.
UberCab.com	2009	Python	1990	Around 2005 saw the release of Django one of the post popular web frameworks
Stripe.com	2010	Ruby on Rails	2010	In Patrik's own words, there was little to choose between Ruby and Python . They knew ruby better . They also punted on solving scalability problems.