i think where The Web started to go wrong was when your ISP stopped offering 5 megabytes of free space on their servers, where you uploaded files to public_html on their FTP server, and they would show up on http://members.example.org/~atax1a. rather than closing that off, things should have gone towards allowing you to upload small CGIs under cgi-bin and have them show up under /~atax1a/cgi-bin
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in reply to @atax1a's post:
I had an ISP in mid-90s where I could, in fact, do just that. I also had a shell, so it was a bit different from your typical ISP, but it was definitely a thing.
in early 200x we got hired at our hometown ISP as tech support and started messing around with linux, ended up converting their mailserver from windows to postfix, set up spam filtering, etc. A couple of our users needed linux for websites too, so we set up a webserver too. Of course, we were also a teenager in high school at the time, with unmedicated ADHD and no comprehension of gender/dysphoria, so it was (like us, per Conway's Law) kind of a mess.
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