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The amazing part is (as far as I remember) that both were implemented[1] as single files[2][3].

[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20060213215829/http://webpy.org/...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20060106081029/http://webpy.org/...

This was pretty common back then even for extremely complicated (for the time) sites (graybeard here). FCGI rewarded having a single huge application that would gradually leak memory over the course of the day until you told the intern to bounce the service when certain red lights started going off too frequently.

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