AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by mitchitized on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:53AM (#50365542)

> ColdFusion, CGI, ASPX ... it was not exactly a beautiful world back then.

Pffft. VRML is the whole game, baby! Once everyone runs out and gets an SGI oxygen, Nobody is going to use freaking web browsers ever again. I mean, HTML, what a joke.

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by tinco on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:00AM (#50365615)

Also, ASPX (so ASP.Net) was a vastly superior technology to PHP. It was my first love, and I ditched it for Ruby on Rails, but ASP.Net was really good. Especially when you ran it on Linux using Mono.

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by jmull on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:33AM (#50366076)

The previous post probably should have said classic ASP, not ASPX.

Classic ASP was the more direct competitor to PHP, while ASP.net came along later, as part of a next generation of web server languages/frameworks/platforms.

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by thorin on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:06AM (#50365703)

I remember VRML being a possible PhD topic for me in 1997, I think that was about the last I heard of it!

The other option I was actually offered was in machine learning and categorisation, but I avoid it as it was obviously a dead end lol.

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