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Forums didn't have multiple HTML pages in the early 90s, they stuck everything into a database like they do now, and pulled it out with PHP3, or even Perl (the
by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Forums didn't have multiple HTML pages in the early 90s, they stuck everything into a database like they do now, and pulled it out with PHP3, or even Perl (the one I wrote was PHP-FI, then converted to PHP3, and is now entirely lost).
- whstl 3y agoNope. You're wrong. A lot of them did use static pages back then. Especially the ones predating PHP. Also a couple of the most popular open source Perl ones. I remember Matt's wwwboard working like this, for example. Some of them didn't. But A LOT certain did.