> Back in 2000, launching a site update meant someone would log into the server via FTP, drag the files over, and try to "be careful" while they did it. Heck,

> Back in 2000, launching a site update meant someone would log into the server via FTP, drag the files over, and try to "be careful" while they did it. Heck, I remember just compiling Java classes on the server machine itself, copying them to a production directory, and restarting the app server (tomcat IIRC). Source control was the sysadmin running a nightly backup of source directories