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Well, maybe I'm just missing something in this meme, but... Back in the day, deploying code to cgi-bin first required buying and hosting your own server; which

• tannhaeuser 7y ago
  No, it requires renting a server, just like "serverless". Bringing your own hardware was called colo(cating).
  • matchagaucho 7y ago
    Scaling still required renting another server, which then went unutilized until peak load was needed.
    • tannhaeuser 7y ago
      Or ordinary shared hosting on an Apache cluster (that isn't overcommitted)
• flukus 7y ago
  Back in the day having fixed up front costs was considered a benefit and the "as a service" model was called rent seeking. But even then you could buy shared hosting just as simply as you can sign up for "serverless" services. Some ISP's would even give you shared hosting as part of your internet connection. In many universities you could drop a script in your home directory and it was instantly available to the world. Even further back owning and hosting your own server was a dream almost no one could afford. People had to upload their serverless code to time sharing systems.
• fanf2 7y ago
  No, you just rented an account on a shared host. My first job after uni in the 1990s was looking after Demon Internet’s web servers, which were all like 1000 accounts/sites per server.
  • matchagaucho 7y ago
    People generally only rented T1 lines when cgi was introduced. Building and hosting your own server was prerequisite for having hacker cred in the 90s.