On 7 Jun 2006, at 20:16, Phillip Hutchings wrote: > On 6/8/06, Ian Clarke <ian at locut.us> wrote: >> I'm not saying this is directly relevant to Freenet, but it is one of >> the cooler Java-related things I have seen in a while: >> >> http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ > > Bah, Real Men use raw JavaScript! I've just spent the last few months > knee-deep in it...
Yeah, javascript is so hard core... >> On that subject, exactly when did the web turn from being a document >> retrieval system to being a platform for sophisticated client-server >> applications - I guess it was some time in 1993 when someone thought >> up CGI. > > Somewhere around there, it was definitely getting that way when I > started using the internet way back in '95. I'm pretty sure CGI was > before 1993 though, proto-PHP was around in 1994. Nah, according to Wikipedia, it was 1993. And Wikipedia is never wrong. Ian.
