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PHP templated before CF (94 v 95), but I feel like the concept was around long before. I’m not sure what you mean by “application server” but there were in mem
by prepend 6y ago
PHP templated before CF (94 v 95), but I feel like the concept was around long before.
I’m not sure what you mean by “application server” but there were in memory modules for web servers earlier than CF (eg, CGI).
I think CF was around before ASP, Java, and JSP. But it always seemed like a commercial version of PHP to me.
Looking at Wikipedia’s list of application servers [0] there’s quite a few older than CF (Tuxedo in 1983, Maybe CF was the first to be web specific? They were windows only so they can’t be that old.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_application_servers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_application_servers
- harel 6y agoMaybe "First web specific application server" in the sense of a server specifically serving dynamic HTML output over the web" is better? I'm not vouching for the accuracy of this statement.
- prepend 6y agoMaybe “first sold” as the CGI spec in C came out in 1993 [0]. But this seems more of a marketing spin as PHP was out earlier and was the first, I know of, to have that easy “scripts in a folder that are interpreted by the http server” thing going where there was no compile process needed. My memory of the time was that CF was one of the many commercial web software companies that were selling to companies. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface