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Re:Hotwire: HTML over the Wire by webmaven on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @05:53PM (#25512376)
> cgi-bin didn’t give you the ability to update a chat page across several different windows in near real-time.

Servers could maintain an open connection and stream new data to the browser.

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Re:Hotwire: HTML over the Wire by jshen on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @02:04AM (#25515209)
That was a much worse solution, and even worse with cgi-bin.
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Re:Hotwire: HTML over the Wire by webmaven on Thursday December 24, 2020 @11:46PM (#25534278)
Sometimes worse is better.
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