[fragmede]

Why shouldn't they use WordPress? I'd be pissed if they'd wasted taxpayers dollars coming up with a bespoke system because NIH. It's a CMS.

[Kye]

I can't find any suggestion that they shouldn't use WordPress in the post you replied to.

[fragmede]

"only to see" sets up a contrast between what was initially expected and what was actually discovered

[rvnx]

Part “Space-grade CMS”: $45’000’000

[brtkdotse]

The Soviets used a handwritten HTML file served with Apache

[rvnx]

Most likely they would use an older version of NGINX:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nginx-logo.png

[fooker]

comrade gi-bin

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