[dangwu]

We've come full circle

[Nition]

Soon we may even be able to put a website into a folder.

[samstave]

CTRL+SHIFT+N New Folder/website

EDIt: this is a good thing.

[AlienRobot]

The internet is made of tubes. And tubes are made of circles.

2024 is the year of PHP.

[8n4vidtmkvmk]

Jokes on you. I've been using PHP since.... 2001. Shit, that's a long time.

[anyoneamous]

Well, I'm off to learn about Apache Tomcat so I can be ready for 2025.

[lcof]

Perl CGI is the way to go to get ready for 2026

[pjmlp]

Maybe Vercel and Netfly could think about doing Perl serverless.

[otachack]

I laughed, thanks :D

If there's anything to learn about humanity it's that we apply this technique in many ways.

[thyrox]

If I remember correctly earliest version of Apache also did this (though it used S/FTP instead of dropbox and .html instead of .md)

[margalabargala]

Current versions of Apache also do this.

[theyinwhy]

So what you are saying is that the web server Apache is able to serve static web content?

[quickthrower2]

Now how do I serve my micro service from here? Just drop in a js, py or rb file :-)

What if I drop in a tf file?

[djbusby]

WTF is "tf"?

[porridgeraisin]

Terraform i assume

[rchaud]

You used to be able to serve websites via a Dropbox of .html files. It supported CSS, JS and everything. At some point after 2015 they turned off that capability .