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Post by Jaruzel » Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 7:36 AM UTC

sfilargi wrote: post #15

Jaruzel wrote: post #3

I must be so old. I spend all day sitting on an IRC style 'chatroom' with a bunch of friends, that was written about decade ago. It uses a combination of javascript ('ajax') on the client side, and crappy ASP on the backend (because the only server at the time that was available was a Windows server). The comms is very simple asynchronous polling and formatting/parsing javascript. In fact the only updates over time h…

> and crappy ASP on the backend (because the only server at the time that was available was a Windows server). I don't think there was ever a time that people didn't have alternatives to windows server and ASP. Maybe there was a time that ASP was more popular than the alternatives, but I personally haven't observed such thing.

Post by sfilargi » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 4:15 AM UTC

NTripleOne wrote: post #22

sfilargi wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and crappy ASP on the backend (because the only server at the time that was available was a Windows server). I don't think there was ever a time that people didn't have alternatives to windows server and ASP. Maybe there was a time that ASP was more popular than the alternatives, but I personally haven't observed such thing.

I think he quite literally means the only server available to host it on was a windows server, although I still don't see why that limits you to asp at all.