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by qingcharles 353 days ago
Neither of these things came up in the early days of web apps development in the mid-90s when I was doing this.

I had no real debugging environment. I was probably writing all my code in vi and then just compiling and deploying. I guarantee there were buffer overflows and off-by-ones etc.

Web app code was so simple back then, though. The most complex one I wrote was a webmail app, which I was so pleased with, and then HoTMaiL was released three weeks later, with this awesome logo:

https://tenor.com/view/hotmail-outlook-microsoft-outlookcom-...