Of course back then we didn't use dynamic anything, a static web page worked.
Now get off my lawn!
And it wasn't static: We because peoples connections were mostly so slow, we used a CGI that shelled out to ping to estimate connection speed, and return either a static image (if you were on a dialup) or a fancy animated gif if you were on anything faster.
(the ping-test was obviously not reliable - if you were visiting from somewhere with high latency, you'd get the low bandwidth version too, no matter how high your throughput was - but that was rare enough; it worked surprisingly well)
Thousands and thousands of lines of quality conversation, interaction, humanity.
To be honest, I kind of miss those days.
I love to think that the web of the future is just going to be everyones' mac Mini or whatever.
Big Data™ has always irked me, frankly.
I started thinking about that around an implementation that could run under Google’s App Engine free tier, but never completed it.