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Ask HN: What Was the First “Web App”?

1 points by oblib 7y ago

papageek 7y ago
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- oblib 7y ago
  I'm not sure I call that an "app", though I recall them being very popular in the early days.
duiker101 7y ago
I remember it! It was a sort of desktop in a webpage. I didn't even know that sessions existed in PHP and so I ended up (badly) reproducing them by storing a random id in a database. It was awful. I loved it. That was a good 15 years ago. I'd say "the good ol' times" but I have to say it's been only getting better. My first "real and released" web app was https://hackertyper.net https://hackertyper.net
- oblib 7y ago
  That's pretty cool. Love that you still have it up. Mine was "ezinvoice.com". http://web.archive.org/web/20020526173205/http://www.ezinvoice.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20020526173205/http://www.ezinvoi... I probably have the original code somewhere on a cd-rom but it's been a long time since I've seen it.