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Camneerg: The Mac Plus Web Server

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From the "Old Site Archive" at https://www.spacerogue.net/wordpress/?page_id=47:

Camneerg the machine, as well as the other systems and projects described within its pages have either ceased functioning, were dismantled, or given up on long ago.

I was going to say that was lighting fast, how is it not getting clobbered right now. It was towards the top of my HN homepage just now.

The IP of the website is owned by pair networks

Interesting that's even possible. As we all know pre-NT Windows could not be trusted to remain on for long periods of time. Pre-X Mac OS was not a very stable system either.

In fact Apple shipped Mac OS X "server" years before the "client" version because even as an unfinished product it was much more suited to work as server than anything else Apple had at the time.

There was WebStar and MacHTTP, both were in use for years, and had remarkable uptimes vs say... Windows NT which required constant patching. I ran MacHTTP on a Powerbook 540 that had an uptime of more than 7 years. Neither WebStar nor MacHTTP was Apple made. Mac OS X "server" was NeXT rebranded, and it was a finalized development product and server. It shipped with PowerMac G3 machines. Then there came AppleShare IP.

When I started at Apple in 1995, the DTS website ran on a Mac SE under someone's desk.

Heh. Way back when I used a POSIX-like socket library, called “GUSI”, that sat on top of either MacTCP or OpenTransport to write a server that ran inside a QuarkXPress XTension.

It was based on a Steven’s UNIX Networking example.

It ran in a co-operative thread, with an idle on the main thread yielding to it. It was used to batch process EPSF artwork into adverts (Yellow Pages).

I even gave it a PowerPlant UI. The UI ran in XPress too. It wasn’t too hard to plumb in.

SpaceRogue is so cool. I was just watching the back episodes of his old Hacker News Network podcasts :) Too bad we don't have the stack of shame these days.

https://www.youtube.com/@HackerNewsNetwork/videos

I want to point out how much faster to load the `/camneerg` site is to load than the `/wordpress` site on his domain.

I'm not bashing wordpress here, but how fast older websites load even on a MacPlus!

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