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30 years of MySQL, the database that changed the world

The Register · Lindsay Clark · last updated

Before Donald Trump became US president and the UK left the EU – both arguably the result of a new kind of online politics – a rather nervous-looking Mark Zuckerberg shuffled out onto a Harvard University lecture hall floor to offer some insight into the inner workings of a website he had created less than two years earlier.

In a December 2005 talk, he explained how his Facebook social networking site was able to support 400 million page views a day with around 50 employees, a bunch of rented servers and some open source software, including a database.

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