Ask HN: What was it like writing web apps / sites in the 90's and early 2000's?

Re:Ask HN: What was it like writing web apps / sites in the ... by davidw on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @11:56AM (#9218804)

I started with Perl CGI's and then used PHP some. It was't particularly beautiful stuff, and web programming was perhaps not looked on with as much favor, as 'real' programmers were doing things with C or C++.

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Re:Ask HN: What was it like writing web apps / sites in the ... by nuwin_tim on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @12:03PM (#9218860)

Did you mostly use vi to edit files? What were some of your goto IDEs?

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Re:Ask HN: What was it like writing web apps / sites in the ... by davidw on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @12:11PM (#9218937)

No, I've always been an Emacs guy, and still am.

When I got started with Linux, on a 386 with 4 megs of memory, I used jed though because the machine was so limited - even back in the mid 90ies it was a pretty limited machine.

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Re:Ask HN: What was it like writing web apps / sites in the ... by opless on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @12:10PM (#9218929)

For me it was mostly vi editing perl cgi on Solaris or Linux boxes. Someone might have been using (x)emacs, but he was weird ;-)

Oh, and we didn't use source control either.

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Re:Ask HN: What was it like writing web apps / sites in the ... by rikkus on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @12:12PM (#9218941)

vi with perl cgi here, too.

I played a little with Java Applets. I still remember waiting for them to start up.

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Re:Ask HN: What was it like writing web apps / sites in the ... by opless on Friday March 20, 2015 @01:31PM (#9239169)

Oh gosh, I forgot those!

I even wrote a airline-booking-system terminal program in Java, all before swing reared its ugly head!

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