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Re:Web3's fake version of Web history by bdcravens on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @11:40AM (#35803728)
> Web1 (roughly 1990-2005) was about open protocols that were decentralized and community-governed

The web during this time was marked by many commercial languages and app servers. (like ColdFusion, server products by Netscape and Sun, etc). A decent IDE was typically several hundred dollars. Corporate interests were trying to control the protocols and standards (Flash, ActiveX, Applets, etc). Even browsers were initially paid commercial products.

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Re:Web3's fake version of Web history by anthk on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @12:33PM (#35804407)
It depends where. By 2002 you could get a nice KDE3 distro with KDEvelop and do magic.

If not, you could use PHP, Perl, Apache. LAMP stacks were everywhere. Debian was the right choice, even from a GNU/FSF way.

The end of the 90's with Mozilla being open changed the things a lot.

Also, even in 2004 you could browse Slashdot with FreeBSD and Lynx under a 486 perfectly fine.

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