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

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On 10/25/25 8:27 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
> Not necessarily strange. Hypermedia platforms like HyperCard long
> predate anything resembling the modern Web.

Ah, I miss HyperCard. It was terribly limited (enter SuperCard!), and it 
was a horrible programming environment in so many ways, but it did some 
things very nicely. And it allowed quick and easy hacks. Why can't 
Python have a way to UI's that were half as easy to use?

And as a hacky database, it was actually useful. I wish I knew of a 
database that would let me so easily store and access data.


> But I think you're not
> wrong comparing with a full operating system.

A very odd OS, particularly when one adds in all the cloud stuff that 
has become standard. What a complicated mess. And a security disaster. 
Yet it is just normal these days.


-kb