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That's also how the most popular guestbooks and forums in the 90s worked. e.g., WWWBoard, which seemed to be used almost everywhere for quite a while. A perl sc
by Reedx 11y ago
That's also how the most popular guestbooks and forums in the 90s worked. e.g., WWWBoard, which seemed to be used almost everywhere for quite a while. A perl script would generate a new HTML file and update the index HTML for each post.
- robinhouston 11y agoThe only trouble was they didn’t do it atomically, so if two people posted at the same time everything would get horribly mangled. There was a reason we moved to database-backed sites.
- tjoff 11y agoI surely hope that wasn't the reason.