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		hncommenter13 on July 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It’s 1997 and you want to build a website I worked for an ecommerce startup in 1998/1999 that was founded in 1997. The app was built in Perl with (by 1999) a MySQL backend. But there were definitely applications for building larger websites, including ColdFusion[1] from Allaire and, infamously, Broadvision[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_ColdFusion [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadvision

bradwood on July 6, 2022 [–]

I remember both of these, especially BroadVision which was the biggest most overpriced piece of shit we ever worked with. We used to call it FraudVision

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