Instead of Apache Server I migrated to EuroApache Server

Its similar but slightly less friendly and doesn't require a tip

What is their moat?

It seems like its just consumer name recognition at the moment

100 computers in 100 homes is way harder to maintain than 100 computers in one place

But its already optimized so well that its comparable to a "small game engine"?

https://nitter.net/trq212/status/2014051501786931427#m

That's why I stopped brushing my teeth, I can't clean every crevice perfectly so what's the point?

Why is it with Javascript the culture is to use so many dependencies?

All sorts of reasons, but this isn't a left-pad situation. Axios's functionality is something provided by a library in a lot of languages (C/C++ with libcurl and friends, Python with requests, Rust with reqwest, and so on).

That's not to say it's inherently necessary for it to be a third-party package (Go, Ruby, and Java are counterexamples). But this isn't a proliferation/anemic stdlib issue.

> We occasionally met in person at local pizza parlors so we could put faces to the handle. That was AWESOME.

I'm curious what was the age range of most people at these meetups back then?

Also was it like all "nerds" at that point

All nerds, for sure. I was young, so my idea of age was a bit off... but I recall them being from their mid-20s up to their 50s. Mostly in their early 30s, though.

I should also note - the person who handed most of his equipment down to me was also active on local BBSes, primarily focused on the gay community at a time and in a place where that was not a topic people were really allowed to discuss at all. He was a good friend of my mother's, and I didn't learn that about him until much later. He used to hang out on a BBS called "The Strawberry Patch", which was for those who were attracted to gay, red-headed men.

Yet another example where online communities can help people find "the others" to build their communities and find support.

For "single-line" ones did you have to stay connected to the server while browsing?

Or would your PC just download a local copy?

Other than the few boards that supported downloading "packets" of message board data ("QWK packets") you were connected to the remote board the whole time. I got started at 1,200 baud (approx 120 characters / second), and moved up to 9,600 and eventually 28,800 baud at the end. At those speeds you're not downloading much very quickly. You're basically interacting with a TUI-based application as a very slow serial dumb terminal.

Heh - QWK was such a god send for those of us paying long distance charges to access boards. I think I used 'Bluemail' ? 'Bluereader' ? and really liked it.

Interesting, and was there any sort of time limit or measures to avoid one person tying up the line for too long?

Yes. You had time quotas, typically.

Downloading files might also be limited by an upload/download ratio restriction, too.

A friend of mine wrote an external program for a particular BBS (what were colloquially known as "door" programs-- software adjunct to the BBS that remote callers could interact with) that allowed you to "bank" your quota time.

Time banks were fairly common. For those with slower modems, it was sometimes the only way you would be able to download an entire program. File downloads were not always resumable back then, depending on the transfer protocols supported by your terminal software and/or the BBS.

Zmodem and resumable transfers was so cool.

Thanks I'll check those out

That's an issue I find too

Its like the agent must succeed at all costs, even if it means doing some insane solution

It needs to just straight up fail sometimes but its like the models are not trained to allow that