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To be fair, that's more like "started 25 years ago". Very little of the original Python 1.0 code exists (especially given the great renaming when the "Py"/"PY"-prefix occurred.)

I like to think of the thousands of developers involved. ;)

For example, assuming Instagram uses gcc to build Python or any of the other components, gcc started in 1987.

Parts of glibc have copyrights dating from the 1980s, like netinet/tcp.h Copyright (c) 1982, The Regents of the University of California .



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