<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>The concept of "shared" hosting still existed in the late 90's, at least for PHP hosting. I distinctly remember using what was xoom.com at the time which offered free php hosting. I had some stuff hosted there for a bit until either I moved somewhere else or they disappeared.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, Apr 21, 2022, at 11:54 AM, JD Austin via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51, 51, 255);">I'd say that's true throughout IT; people are pretty specialized now compared to how it was in the 90s when you had to build the whole stack to do it yourself. <br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51, 51, 255);">Nowadays people can set up on shared hosting and configure things in a web browser and don't have to have a lot of low level knowledge. <br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51, 51, 255);">I'm one of the few people at work that knows programming, databases, networking, DNS, Linux, Windows, etc because I've been doing this since the late 80s too. <br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51, 51, 255);">Most people I see know one or maybe two areas at most. <br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51, 51, 255);"><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51, 51, 255);">JD<br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 11:12 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="qt-gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:1px;padding-left:1ex;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hi,<br></div><div> <br></div><div> I'm a PHP developer and always thought all opensource developers had at <br></div><div> least some knowledge of Linux.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Recently I watched a YouTube video that stated otherwise. The presenter <br></div><div> said it is important to know Linux which will set one apart from the <br></div><div> crowd.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> I have been "messing"/"playing"/"working" with Linux since around 1998 <br></div><div> or so. Learned a lot and have a lot to learn. Thought all opensource <br></div><div> developers had at least a fundamental understanding of Linux.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Is it true most do not know Linux?<br></div><div> <br></div><div> And is it true that it is good, for a dev, to be able to put they have <br></div><div> basic familiarity of Linux on their Resume?<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Thanks in advance!!<br></div><div> <br></div><div> ---------------------------------------------------<br></div><div> PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br></div><div> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br></div><div> <a href="https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br></div></blockquote></div><div>---------------------------------------------------<br></div><div>PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br></div><div>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br></div><div><a href="https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>