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This is how the first discussion board on the web was written to work. Search for Matt's script WWWBoard. Perl script added the posted comment with date into th
by habibur 4y ago
This is how the first discussion board on the web was written to work. Search for Matt's script WWWBoard. Perl script added the posted comment with date into the HTML file's insertion point.
At that time in the 90s this was heavily deployed everywhere. This was before PHP-BB and other database based boards got popular.
- connordoner 4y agoThis was my first memory on reading the post too. Ah, Matt Wright, and FormMail, WWWBoard and even… OMG… guestbooks (remember those?!).
- ksec 4y agoYes, and we have 100x the DRAM capacity, 1000x CPU Performance if we include MultiCore, and 10,000x faster IOPS on SSD. We could have gone back to the old ways of doing things and it would ( or should ) actually be more scalable.