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

[Rich Pieri]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2025 07:23:03 -0700
Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> Sorry I was unclear.

It wasn't you being unclear. It was the original article you cited
being unclear. Unless the author genuinely believes that they don't
need web servers at all in which case said author is severely lacking
in clues.

> A system designed for hypertext has turned out to be the architecture 
> for so much of modern life, but it wasn't designed for that. And, if
> one were to design something for user interfaces over a large
> network, hypertext would have been a strange way to go about it. It
> has turned into an OS, kind of.

Not necessarily strange. Hypermedia platforms like HyperCard long
predate anything resembling the modern Web. But I think you're not
wrong comparing with a full operating system.

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