[davidw]

> Without V8, there is no JavaScript on the server-side

The first implementation of server side Javascript was nearly 20 years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Server-side_JavaScri...

Naturally, it was never all that popular, but... it has been around.

[dtauzell]

I maintained an app using Netscape's LiveWire 12 years ago. Had that project been free (as in beer) I think it could have seen pretty good adoption.

[mythz]

He meant server-side JS was relatively non-existent before node.js, he even listed alternate server-side JS impls that did use server-side JS, nothing of which is anywhere close to the phenomenon that node.js is now.