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Re:Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, clo... by spwa4 on Saturday November 01, 2025 @08:25AM (#45781107)
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)

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Re:Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, clo... by keeda on Saturday November 01, 2025 @02:30PM (#45784060)
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.
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Re:Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, clo... by spwa4 on Saturday November 01, 2025 @03:37PM (#45784630)
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.
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Re:Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, clo... by keeda on Saturday November 01, 2025 @04:42PM (#45785150)
Oooh, that's interesting, I was not aware of that!
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