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If you look at the url, you notice they are using CGI and Win32 EXEs

You can't know that.

It could have been redeveloped in anything, but kept the original url scheme for backwards compatibility.

Oh, come now. Whether he can or cannot know such a thing is however many angels, dancing on the head of a pin.

Do you honestly believe anything this terrible went through a rewrite? I sure don't.

I know! I takes at least three rewrites to make it that terrible.

The URLs in question have no backwards compatibility, by design.