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What about CGI scripts from Matt's Script Archive [1] which amazingly is still alive?

[1] http://www.scriptarchive.com/

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I was frequenting PerlMonks a lot during the time that Not Matt's Scripts were created: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/

And updated in 2009!

Along those lines on the design side of things, what about Doc Ozone's tutorials, those are still up too:

http://www.handson.nu/

Incidentally he was also doing some pretty crazy DHTML era stuff on his last home page revision, which, despite the date on the page, I believe came out circa 2001:

http://www.ozones.com/

Hearing "DHTML" reminded me of Thomas Brattli's old site[1] and it's successor dhtmlcentral. I learned quite a bit from those sites in the late 90s early 00s.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20001019064945/http://www.bratta...

Yes yes yes! You were a webmaster based on the article posted.

You were a web developer if you'd torn apart and rebuild Matt's Forum, Poll, and other widgets.

My first job title was "webmaster." Which meant dev-ops-designer-product-guy.

True, true - there was no web dev/web designer, no front end/back end... webmaster had to be a *nix admin, coder, HTML, graphic designer & security guy all rolled into one.

So true. Sometimes I tell the new kids about this in terms of the differences between then and now: "No, you don't understand, I don't know all this shit because I'm awesome, I know all this because getting a computer working and online in the late 80s/early 90s required knowing just about everything. Everything. Right down to when you needed to park the fucking hard drive." It was all one big roll.

I know the long-beards would scoff at that a bit but, you know, it is what it is. Even in the early 90s you had to know almost all facets of things just to get it working.

I'm blown away this is still around.

Holy shit. That place was a mecca.

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