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Half Bakery is some awesome old-skool internet stuff. Back in the late 90s it was one of my favourite haunts. Sadly they lost all their content somehow and didn

Half Bakery is some awesome old-skool internet stuff. Back in the late 90s it was one of my favourite haunts. Sadly they lost all their content somehow and didn't have a full backup so, funny though it is now, there was some epic stuff on the old site that is lost forever.

mlkmt 9y ago
I remember browsing it in the 90s... remember any epic stuff from back then?
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 9y ago
  hamster dance
- yawz 9y ago
  Accepting the risk of being downvoted heavily... Young men + new to browsing + some imagination = Pamela Anderson was epic by then.
- johnnyforeigner 9y ago
  Always loved "Film Noir House" where every room was wired such that it narrated whatever you were doing around the house, but in the style of a Film Noir movie... "He walked into the bedroom... switched on the light..."
wpietri 9y ago
Very old school indeed! From the about section: "The halfbakery software is implemented as one big C CGI program, edited with vi, compiled with gcc, invoked by an Apache http server."
- yawz 9y ago
  Wow! A blast from the past. I started my career in the mid-90s writing software with exactly this same stack.
  - stcredzero 9y ago
    I started with something built on the CGI.pm Perl module.
  - Nursie 9y ago
    You might be surprised (or horrified) how much is still out there...
    - yawz 9y ago
      Now... If this is true, it is scary indeed :).
  - macintux 9y ago
    cgic was a great library, even if it was still excruciatingly tedious to write. I'm not entirely certain whether I discovered cgic or Perl first, but I know which one I preferred writing.
  - derefr 9y ago
    It's funny—you just need a cgi-bin: 1. with 1777 permissions (sticky bit set); and 2. rsynced between a cluster of systems; and you've got a modern Function-as-a-Service backend.
    - sehugg 9y ago
      And of course you want to use a flat file database on an NFS server, maybe using some cool flock()s to synchronize writes :)
      - smueller1234 9y ago
        Only to then realise that naive flock() won't cut it on your basic NFS setup so you resort to bizarre tricks like using hard links to the lock file to emulate proper locking on NFS because they can tell you which of the racing clients won. Those were good times... right?
    - lscotte 9y ago
Analemma_ 9y ago
For all the gripes about cloud computing, the fact that amateurs can set up a website but also have one-click backups and redundancy is worth something. There’s a lot of offbeat web history that’s gone forever because someone’s hard drive crashed.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 9y ago
  You'd think we'd have a shared hard drive today.

mlkmt 9y ago

I remember browsing it in the 90s... remember any epic stuff from back then?

0xdeadbeefbabe 9y ago
hamster dance
yawz 9y ago
Accepting the risk of being downvoted heavily... Young men + new to browsing + some imagination = Pamela Anderson was epic by then.
johnnyforeigner 9y ago
Always loved "Film Noir House" where every room was wired such that it narrated whatever you were doing around the house, but in the style of a Film Noir movie... "He walked into the bedroom... switched on the light..."

wpietri 9y ago

Very old school indeed! From the about section: "The halfbakery software is implemented as one big C CGI program, edited with vi, compiled with gcc, invoked by an Apache http server."

yawz 9y ago
Wow! A blast from the past. I started my career in the mid-90s writing software with exactly this same stack.
- stcredzero 9y ago
  I started with something built on the CGI.pm Perl module.
- Nursie 9y ago
  You might be surprised (or horrified) how much is still out there...
  - yawz 9y ago
    Now... If this is true, it is scary indeed :).
- macintux 9y ago
  cgic was a great library, even if it was still excruciatingly tedious to write. I'm not entirely certain whether I discovered cgic or Perl first, but I know which one I preferred writing.
- derefr 9y ago
  It's funny—you just need a cgi-bin: 1. with 1777 permissions (sticky bit set); and 2. rsynced between a cluster of systems; and you've got a modern Function-as-a-Service backend.
  - sehugg 9y ago
    And of course you want to use a flat file database on an NFS server, maybe using some cool flock()s to synchronize writes :)
    - smueller1234 9y ago
      Only to then realise that naive flock() won't cut it on your basic NFS setup so you resort to bizarre tricks like using hard links to the lock file to emulate proper locking on NFS because they can tell you which of the racing clients won. Those were good times... right?
  - lscotte 9y ago

Analemma_ 9y ago

For all the gripes about cloud computing, the fact that amateurs can set up a website but also have one-click backups and redundancy is worth something. There’s a lot of offbeat web history that’s gone forever because someone’s hard drive crashed.

0xdeadbeefbabe 9y ago
You'd think we'd have a shared hard drive today.