it's been so much fun to read about the php vulnerabilities & other hacks. it's sometimes shocking to see how much of the internet still runs on it (which makes a ton of sense). when i was a kid, i built so many php sites with mysql & tools like phpmyadmin. one of my sites used to get 50k+ uniques a month & almost all my work went into making a fuck ton of low level optimizations so i didn't burn my bandwidth & everything remained pretty fast since a lot of ppl still were transitioning to…