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Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by TheDong on Sunday June 07, 2020 @05:23AM (#23445986)
The staples of the early web, in my mind, are html and perl CGI scripts. php might make the cut as early web, but web frameworks, like those in ruby and python, feel to me me much less like the early web, and much more like the web 2.0 days.
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Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by iso1210 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @10:42AM (#23447668)
Matts Script Archive was mid 90s. Mod perl maybe just squeezes into 'early web', I think /. used it in the late 90s.

Perl wasn't the only CGI in the early days - a large internal web application I encountered as late as 2004 had it's CGIs written in C, running on IRIX

PHP is certainly the newcomer as far as I'm concerned

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Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by ghaff on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:38AM (#23448122)
Like a number of languages, PHP was around for quite a while before it really took off. PHP is probably most associated with "Web 2.0" as it became the model for web interactions in the mid-2000s.
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Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by iso1210 on Monday June 08, 2020 @06:07PM (#23461339)
php 3 was the first php as we know it, and that wasn't until 97 - before then it was more like SSI. It didn't really compete with mod perl until zend
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