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What kind of web server would even be calling Perl CGI scripts in 1992? I thought it was all bulletin boards back then. Personally I just got my first PC and was learning to play Commander Keen in 1992 ;-)

I started with perl in 1992, ncsa httpd came out in 1993, which was the first release of CGI.

I ported EBBS/BBS to A/UX and ran one for a few years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCSA_HTTPd

https://github.com/virtadpt/eBBS (my name is in the credits)

Nah, you're still a youngster. Got Perl 1 via Usenet in 1988 when there wasn't even a web yet.

My first exposure to Perl pattern-matching was a magic regex for parsing CGI input handed down to me by a more experienced coder. "Don't ask how this works."

"Write once, read never" is another good Perl quote someone told me once.