AolServer, the Web-server program used by (surprise!)
AmericaOnline.
AolServer was originally
NaviServer, published by
NaviSoft and licensed for $5K per machine; AOL liked the server so much that they literally bought the company. After the purchase, AOL didn't want to be in the software-sales business, and they didn't want to annoy
NaviSoft's other customers, so they just gave away the binary. Then
PhilipGreenspun convinced one of AOL's executives that making the program open-source would be in the company's best interest.
AolServer is a multi-threaded server, allowing for dynamically-loaded libraries to extend the server. It has Tcl interpreters embedded, and includes
AolServer Dynamic Pages, a technology like
ActiveServerPages, for quick development of quick-responding dynamic websites.
AolServer is used in production by
AmericaOnline, among others.
http://photo.net/wtr/aolserver/introduction-1.html
http://aolserver.com/
AOLserver Wiki:
http://panoptic.com/wiki/aolserver/
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