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The first version of the Golang web site doesn't mention the web: "A systems programming language: expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected." However one of the first programming examples on the Effective Go page is a web server.

https://web.archive.org/web/20091112094121/http://golang.org...

Looks like you're right. This is the original announcement: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/11/hey-ho-lets-go...

I came here to say this. It's not fair to criticize Go as not optimal for web services if it wasn't designed to be optimal for web services.