[OJFord]

> [Althttpd ...] has run the https://sqlite.org/ website since 2004

I don't know what the landscape was like in 2004 really, but probably at least an order of magnitude less than today's bazillion (whatever that would be!).

[aembleton]

I don't think Nginx was out then, so I was using Apache HTTPD. Maybe Dwayne considered that too heavy for what he needed to serve up.

[unwind]

Nginx was first released to the public in 2004 [1]. Apache was released in 1995 [2].

On a more personal note, wow! I had no idea I started using the Internet for realz before the release of Apache, in 1994. This young made me feel, not.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server

[c17r]

Nginx’s first public release was Oct 2004, so fits with your theory.