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gnachman | 2 years ago

I worked on this as an intern in 1997 and led it for a while. AMA

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evilstark|2 years ago

Hey George! We should catch up! (to readers: I was the guy who hired George as an intern and he was awesome. so AMA too!)

AOLServer was so, so, so far ahead of it's time. It had a WYSIWYG HTML editor years before Dreamweaver that could post content to the server. The integrated (Illustra!) Database and TCL interpreter meant you could build basically anything with it. Props to Jimbo and Doug...

We built what I think might have been the worlds first massively multi-homed, self-provisioning hosting service (called, creatively, "Navi-Service") with it. Think Linode but in 1997.

schemescape|2 years ago

What issues did you run into using Tcl? (If any)