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We've come full circle


Soon we may even be able to put a website into a folder.


CTRL+SHIFT+N New Folder/website

EDIt: this is a good thing.


The internet is made of tubes. And tubes are made of circles.

2024 is the year of PHP.


Jokes on you. I've been using PHP since.... 2001. Shit, that's a long time.


Well, I'm off to learn about Apache Tomcat so I can be ready for 2025.


Perl CGI is the way to go to get ready for 2026


Maybe Vercel and Netfly could think about doing Perl serverless.


I laughed, thanks :D

If there's anything to learn about humanity it's that we apply this technique in many ways.


If I remember correctly earliest version of Apache also did this (though it used S/FTP instead of dropbox and .html instead of .md)


Current versions of Apache also do this.


So what you are saying is that the web server Apache is able to serve static web content?


Now how do I serve my micro service from here? Just drop in a js, py or rb file :-)

What if I drop in a tf file?


WTF is "tf"?


Terraform i assume


You used to be able to serve websites via a Dropbox of .html files. It supported CSS, JS and everything. At some point after 2015 they turned off that capability .




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