Guess the Social Networking Site

Posted on August 10th, 2007 by Brian

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// NOTE(mcslee): ok, at this point we know we are going to display the full
// page, so it is time to do a PHATTY PHATTY MULTIGET of all the shit that
// we are going to need to make this page, or at least the most common things
...

Yea, so Simon from Facebook’s legal department sent a very nice Cease & Desist email politely demanding that I take down the code (note that I never implied anywhere on this site that it was Facebook’s code, nor have I broken any laws in obtaining said code), but I figured the above lines, used for the sake of comedy, are kosher. Funny how the last name in those parenthesis matches up with one of Facebook’s (and Google’s, and Motorola’s), though I of course imply no connection.

Sorry Simon for making you log on late on a Friday to send that email.

Completely Random Pretty Code From Nowhere in Particular (Removed due to Facebook’s very quickly sent Cease & Desist)

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10 Responses to “Guess the Social Networking Site”

  1. chris, on August 10th, 2007 at 11:52 pm Said:

    facebook. i got the same stuff, just for photo.php

  2. Scott, on August 11th, 2007 at 3:25 am Said:

    Still waiting for the message.. I expect it soon. I wonder why it’s always with photo.php??

  3. Brian, on August 11th, 2007 at 3:26 am Said:

    That was profile.php, I guess people just spend more time on photo.php, and therefore have a higher chance of hitting the faulty web server.

  4. Tony, on August 11th, 2007 at 12:41 pm Said:

    Does Facebook continuously run Google searches for their own source code? Maybe someone can get a hold of their search history ;)

  5. Facebook Source Code Exposed By Faulty Web Server, on August 12th, 2007 at 12:08 am Said:

    [...] source code for profile.php was posted at NerdLife and was taken down soon after when they received a cease and desist email from the Facebook legal [...]

  6. Sean, on August 12th, 2007 at 9:19 pm Said:

    Would you like to send me one copy? I’m very interesting with it. Thank you. My email is: ws1040@sina.com

  7. Lucas, on August 13th, 2007 at 12:46 am Said:

    Hey man, would you mind sending facebook’s profile.php to me?

    Thanks in advance,
    Lucas

  8. Clara, on August 13th, 2007 at 5:17 pm Said:

    Can you send me a copy too? Much appreciated.

  9. Facebook Source Code Leaked | The Last Page on the Net, on August 14th, 2007 at 11:18 am Said:

    [...] The Wrong Advice points out a blog entry which used to contain the source to profile.php and a commenter who claims to have gotten photo.php. Others have posted search and groups code [...]

  10. Tony, on August 14th, 2007 at 3:20 pm Said:

    Heh, it appears that a lot of people don’t quite get the meaning of “Cease & Desist”. Besides, most of the “leaked” code is just UI and markup, it shows nothing of the inner working of the software (i.e. most of the code can be guessed from the rendered page). For anyone interested in studying the awesomeness that is Facebook - you should be after the library files.

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