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by fraktl 1842 days ago
You missed the date in the comment of the C file: 2001-09-15

Back then, there weren't bazillion web servers out there. A patchy server was still.. patchy. And engine that solves problem X (c10k) was not created yet :)

(for whoever reads my comment, I am referring to Apache and nginx)