[moltar]

Ha remember that too! It’s basically just keeping the socket open and continuously streaming a response. As if it’s just a slow download. It’d also send heartbeat null values to keep the connection open. Of course in the CGI days that really didn’t scale well as it required a whole process to run for each user.

[dujgdtgdrvd]

it scaled as well as you would expect coming from those days.

the alternative was a whole computer plus modem per user.