MySQL replaced mSQL [miniSQL]. A bare minimum SQL server that didn't even have table joins. But was used with PHP on the web regardless. Because the alternate w

MySQL replaced mSQL [miniSQL]. A bare minimum SQL server that didn't even have table joins. But was used with PHP on the web regardless. Because the alternate was to code your own text file database. MySQL was so much better over it all. Postgress did exist at that time. Was called Postgress95. I compiled and ran it on a linux machine. And it crashed as soon as I tried to connect from a remote host.