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title: Yahoo Going Towards PHP
date: 2002-11-17 00:25:27
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2002/11/17/yahoo-going-towards-php/
author: Lester Chan
categories:
  - Web
---

This news is quite old, dated 25th October 2002, but it is quite interesting. Didn’t know Yahoo! is going to change its scripting language to PHP from a proprietary server-side page language written in C/C++.  
Here are some interesting facts about Yahoo! :

> **»** 201 Million Unique Users  
>  **»** 93 Million Active Registered Users  
>  **»** More Than 1.5 Billion Page Views A Day  
>  **»** 4500+ Servers  
>  **»** 16 Co-Locations  
>  **»** 74 Properties  
>  **»** 25 International Sites  
>  **»** 13 Languages  
>  **»** 8.1 Million Lines Of Code In C/C++  
>  **»** 3.0 Million Lines Of Code In Perl  
>  **»** Open Source Softwares Runs Yahoo! Business

For full information click [here](http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm), the page is something like PowerPoint presentation, in slides, 41 of them. The slides also contain some history on Yahoo!.