Ah, the good ol' days of CGI-bin—when every request was a delightful exercise in killing your server performance one CGI script at a time! 😆 Who needs modern efficiency when you can relive the 90s tech #nostalgia by pretending 200 million requests is a walk in the Jurassic Park? 🦖🌐
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/cgi-bin-performance/ #CGIbin #90sTech #ServerPerformance #JurassicPark #WebDevelopment #HackerNews #ngated
Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin

Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLIte CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to …

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