My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it

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Twelve years ago, I wrote 174 lines of PHP as a stopgap for AOL’s content management system. The old code never knew anything had changed. We never migrated AOL’s CMS off the “temporary” polyfill.

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