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It seems odd to me that we had Javascript as pretty much the default server-side scripting language back in the Netscape days, then JS on the server pretty much disappeared as IIS and Apache took over, and now with Node Javascript on the server is "new".

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We adopted server-side Javascript at Bloomberg to build all of the applications for the terminal starting in 2006 using a custom environment built around Spidermonkey. So Node isn't that new a concept around here :)

Javascript was popular-but-not-dominant as the server-side scripting language for 'classic' ASP (vbscript was also used), which died out a lot around 2002 with the release of .NET.

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