I stand partly corrected.  I only knew for certain servlet  spec 2 was out in 99, and had not known anyone doing Java web serving stuff.  I had colleagues doing java, and I worked in a commercial web house with those same colleagues, but none seemed to consider java web stuff (server side) usable (again memory&#x27;s a bit hazy).  I do know by 2000 some jumped in to servlets big time, but not many before that.<p>I think my first was perl&#x2F;cgi in Jan 96 - not a full &quot;web app&quot; but I could read and write data via web forms to a database (msql IIRC).  Feb 96 I know I was doing some PHP&#x2F;FI, though still did a lot of Perl for years, mostly because that&#x27;s what most hosts supported.  For my own stuff, it was generally PHP even then when I had a choice.