War Games and Ferris Buelers Day Off were why I searched "how to hack" into excite.com a couple hours into getting my first internet capable home computer. I found ESR's "Hacker How-To" and tried to follow it with youthful zeal.
I built it because I wanted to able to make websites in Objective-C and I didn't like any of the stuff that existed when I started.
I've learned a lot making it and enjoyed it. I don't know if I would start something like this again. Reading the RFCs and implementing FastCGI and HTTP was a lengthy and tiresome process. I enjoyed it though.
Sure, now you have a bazillion Swift server-side frameworks, but at the time Swift didn't even exist. Call me a dinosaur, but I like ObjC and the Cocoa stack and I think it deserves its place on the web.
