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by jagged-chisel 663 days ago
You don’t get, when web servers were a new thing, why anyone continued using the same kind of executables they always had to handle workloads that required executable code.

Probably because there was not yet any data AT ALL about demand from the network, the patterns that random visitors could cause, etc.

“I don’t get why the Romans didn’t build suspension bridges with concrete, steel, and cables.”