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by mattl 678 days ago
Great to see this!

Back in the late 90s I worked on a system that generated a static website from an existing QB application. The app itself was a flat file database with a few thousand entries and was very fast. The web version was equally fast as you’d enter a customer number and it would just redirect you to that page. It did very little but we did add a few hints to the screen output and then would screen-scrape the app window to a plain text file and then run my tool to convert those plain text files to templated pages.