Came from Murder Drones

[crischutu07]

This issues is not a troll related. We're just came here from this reddit post. (credit: u/justzvan)
Murder Drones is a black comedy internet series produced by GLITCH Productions, it's all about murderous robots killing other robots. Internet people found out this PHP repository when they read the codes in the show, where it filled with every lines of PHP codes. I also suspected they referring this repository when I use this for practice and making a simple PHP back-end server, and I was not wrong :D.

[crischutu07]

Honestly I quit using PHP a year ago :)

[gggeek]

Lol. We are famous!

Thanks for the ref.

So, I just skimmed the reddit, and it's not very clear the role of this code within the fiction - is it supposed to just bug and crash, to bring on an apocalypse event, or to summon some Cthulhu-like entity?

Adding a bit of info: this library is indeed quite ancient, as far as the PHP-sphere goes, and it did use to be quite widely used in the distant past. It was f.e. included in Wordpress at some point. It is "infamous" in that it managed to be (ab)used by one of the first linux-targetting worms which made rounds in the press - the 'lupper virus' (the underlying bug has long since been fixed of course).

So I think it is fitting if it appears in the context of ancient-code-which-can-be-used-to-crash-a-system :-)
Or maybe the script writers are just ex-wordpress users who hate that platform with passion ;-)

On a side note: iirc the xml-rpc protocol, but not this specific implementation, also appears on a whiteboard in a scene in the 'The Boss of It All' movie from Lars von Trier.