[Discuss] A Web Server is No Longer a Web Server

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

Looking at an item from This Week in Rust, I see an item about 
http://rust-lang.org being converted from being served by something 
called Heroku to being static.

The short description included the virtue:
> Removes the complexity of managing a web server, which is unnecessary 
> to serve static content.

Wow, static web pages are so beastly simple that they seem to not need a 
web server.

The whole World Wide Web was designed for static hypertext. But the 
"let's make this extensible" afterthought of GET/POST/PUT ended up 
eating both the web and neary all of RPC.

So now it is a great innovation to do static pages. I'm feeling old.


-kb, the Kent who is old.