New version of AOLServer incoming?

pjmlp 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ah, the memories.

The startup I joined in 1999 had its own application server loosely based on AOLServer architecture.

We had Apache + mod_tcl, IIS with our own ISAPI extension, then in box connections for all major RDMS across all key UNIXes and Windows NT/2000.

Some left to join companies doing Vignette projects, others eventually created OutSystems redoing the same ideas, but with the newly released .NET.

However it was also a lesson in performance issues, and the constant pressure to rewrite Tcl code into C extensions.

	▲	baggachipz 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I used it when I worked at AOL :) Was great for rapid prototyping and a/b testing in volume. Not sure I'd pick it ever again for anything, but it was interesting for sure.
	▲	wombatpm 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I remember using tcl inside pages running under Vignette Story Server circa 2000 before we started with jsp

elitepleb 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

	▲	WillAdams 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Now if we could just bring back Navi/AOLPress....

gbacon 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Phil Greenspun is still active on X: https://x.com/PhilipGreenspun

Some throwbacks of his from 1999:

shaky-carrousel 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And OpenACS!

fithisux 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Or Kenny Tilton's celtk or cello?