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I’ve always had a thing for old-school web tech. By the time I joined the digital fray, CGI scripts were pretty much relics, but the term kept popping up in tech forums and discussions like ghosts from the past. So, I got curious, started reading about them, and wanted to see if I could reason about them from the first principles. Writing one from the ground up with nothing but Go’s standard library seemed like a good idea.
The roots of serverless can be traced back to CGI in the early nineties. But at this moment, a new generation is emerging. And it is exciting.
WCGI allows existing CGI applications to be reused by compiling them to WebAssembly, taking advantage of ultra-small packages and sandboxed execution, Wasmer says.
This page discusses the history of webrings. What they were, what happened to them, which ones stil exist and if they are still useful.
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