I don't keep up on what various platforms offer but wasn't the original movabletype a static site generator? You entered a new post, clicked generate, it made a

I don't keep up on what various platforms offer but wasn't the original movabletype a static site generator? You entered a new post, clicked generate, it made a bunch of pages. It was only later that they added a dynamic option. Blogger was static too. It was just a cloud based DB. You gave it an FTP name/pass and it logged into your site and uploaded the new files.