Yes, that's how I remember it. It's also worth noting that the fun parts of perl were largely replaced by ruby. The ruby one-liners and perl one-liners are pretty much the same. And eventually, gems got bigger than CPAN.

You're also right about mod_perl vs php. Shared hosting was really common and mod_perl was really unpleasant.

At some point it's just goodbye perl and thanks for all the scripts.