TIL (Today I learned) that having static pages for your website is now called "Server Side Page Generation" and I feel a little sick inside.

[agowa338@chaos.social]

@jwildeboer

Actually you're behind the trend with that. "Server Side Page Generation" was what the kids called it in 2024 and 2025.

Now in 2026 they call it "post-framework"

[bkastl@mastodon.social]

@jwildeboer once… as I was writing every single html tag with my bare hands on my computer and then carried it byte by byte onto bare metal

You could basically hear this process *modem dialin noises*

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@agowa338 Me, a week ago: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116357637405879003

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@bkastl DancingBanana.gif

[sol_hsa@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jwildeboer but it's.. not..

[sol_hsa@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jwildeboer well I guess it technically is, in the same way that being in a car rolling downhill with engine off is driving a car.

[johnlogic@sfba.social]

@jwildeboer

Does "Server Side Page Generation" imply dynamic generation via server-side includes (SSI) or are the kids today using that term to describe serving static pages too?

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@johnlogic It's static pages. Everything else seems to be a Web Application. Them kids.

[krono@toot.berlin]

@jwildeboer This must be how Mainframe and POWER people must have felt when PC people "invented" hypervisors.

[johnofrobotz@mastodon.girolab.foo]

@jwildeboer I think it's the post-CMS trend that wants the convenience of a CMS without the overhead and cost of managing it. Slight difference with page generation vs classic though: I'd consider classic web was sitting down at a text editor and start by punching in <html...

What's old is new again. We "reboot" everything.