I worked for geocities as a front end person back then. We got to work on some cool javascript stuff for the page builder app that was really pretty far ahead for its time. I got into trouble for bringing a laptop with suse linux on it into the office, back then linux was considered a major security risk, you notice all the machines are from Sun. They were also very early adopters of server side java, but most of the plumbing was composed of c code, the javascript people were kept far away from the server side and we didn't make it up to yahoo, but they did snatch up almost all of the unix admins.
Wow, Page builder (formerly Geobuilder) -- crazy times. I don't remember the Suse incident! But your mention of server side java reminds me that we also experimented with server side javascript via Netscape Enterprise Server. Compared to the C CGIs that comprised most of Geo's backend at that point it seemed a panacea. Too many bugs and not ready for prime time later we stuck w/ Apache (but moved more to handlers).
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I worked for geocities as a front end person back then. We got to work on some cool javascript stuff for the page builder app that was really pretty far ahead for its time. I got into trouble for bringing a laptop with suse linux on it into the office, back then linux was considered a major security risk, you notice all the machines are from Sun. They were also very early adopters of server side java, but most of the plumbing was composed of c code, the javascript people were kept far away from the server side and we didn't make it up to yahoo, but they did snatch up almost all of the unix admins.
Wow, Page builder (formerly Geobuilder) -- crazy times. I don't remember the Suse incident! But your mention of server side java reminds me that we also experimented with server side javascript via Netscape Enterprise Server. Compared to the C CGIs that comprised most of Geo's backend at that point it seemed a panacea. Too many bugs and not ready for prime time later we stuck w/ Apache (but moved more to handlers).