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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 st

by 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!