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by ljm 1098 days ago
And doing the equivalent of partial compilation by just dragging and dropping your php install over FTP and telling it to ignore the unchanged files. Then writing .htaccess files everywhere to tell Apache what to do if you had a 'front controller' pattern.

20 years later and people are doing CGI through WASM or lambda so they can use their language of choice. Full circle as always.