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Yes, I remember this. It had Netscape Livewire (I think that's what it was called?) that let you write very PHP-like server-side JS.

(It was terribly unstable, by the way.)

That was before async was discovered, an innovation by the Node development team.

Irony does not work well on the interweb, my friend.

To clear things up:

a) the Node team did not invent async programming

b) you kill the event loop, if you spawn it per request using CGI

Yes, let's discredit everything the Node community has done.

I only remember the server supporting Java servlets and Perl/sh/etc. CGI. Was there a JavaScript interpreter/runtime built into it, too?

I am actually just 2 years older than this thing, but Wikipedia said so, yes.