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App Engine was the OG serverless before "serverless" was even a term: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=serverless,google%20app%20engi

• spwa4 1y ago
  C and Perl CGI, and later PHP, would like a word ... (CGI is a webserver starting a binary in response to a web request, essentially piping the request into stdin and sending stdout back to the client, in some ways it's brilliantly simple and very unix-y)
  • keeda 1y ago
    Oh in terms of coding, definitely other simple options existed. But you still had to go through the work of provisioning a server, deploying your code to it, and then getting a public IP address and a domain name before you could access it. I meant in terms of going from "0 to Cloud", GAE was ahead of its time.
    • spwa4 1y ago
      Most ISPs let you host CGI and later PHP files on your account, to encourage people to make websites. A guestbook, for example. For a while this was really popular.
      • keeda 1y ago
        Oooh, that's interesting, I was not aware of that!