With respect to the language: having strings as the only data structure (everything is a string) and the developers stance on OOP (we don't need that) didn't he

With respect to the language: having strings as the only data structure (everything is a string) and the developers stance on OOP (we don't need that) didn't help either and made way for python & ruby. With respect to the WWW, there was ACS/OpenACS, which even the author doesn't mention.