There was lots of Perl and PHP coding for Motherjones.com at the first two weeks of this month. So much of that code is throw away. Our team’s task was to take 10,000 or so HTML pages and put them into a CMS with author, date, title and pagination all squared away. We got 9,000 from the web scraper but the other 1,000 articles had to be manually entered. I wrote a web tool for doing that.
We also had to make sure that all the new info was searchable. We used Atomz Search (now Visual Sciences for that.)
So this is how Friendster grew:
User 101 (Jonathan) signed on in April 2002. User 175 signed on in May 2002. User 250 signed on in June 2002. User 375 signed on in July 2002. User 500 signed on in August 2002. User 1000 signed on in September 2002. User 1250 signed on in October 2002. User 1500 signed on in November 2002. User 2500 signed on in December 2002. User 5000 signed on in January 2003. User 10,000 signed on in February 2003. User 25,000 signed on in February 2003. User 50,000 signed on in March 2003. User 100,000 signed on in April 2003. User 250,000 signed on in May 2003. User 500,000 signed on in June 2003. User 750,000 signed on in July 2003. User 1,000,000 signed on in August 2003. User 1,250,000 signed on in September 2003. User 1,500,000 signed on in October 2003. User 1,750,000 signed on in November 2003.