Wow, that brings back some memories. As a teenager, I'd played with the various BASICs and eventually scored a copy of Borland's Turbo Pascal IDE and compiler.

Wow, that brings back some memories. As a teenager, I'd played with the various BASICs and eventually scored a copy of Borland's Turbo Pascal IDE and compiler. After the "web" came about, like everyone else at the time, I discovered HTML and started making web pages (such as this [0] amazing example of creative artistic design) but that quickly became boring. At some point, I stumbled across Matt's Script Archive (mentioned in the article), formmail.pl [1], the guestbook [2] (mine [3] is still around, apparently), and so on. These scripts were amazingly popular at the time. Anyways, I gained my first bits of Perl knowledge from reading through those scripts and modifying them. Nowadays, as a network engineer and sysadmin, Perl is still pretty much the first tool I reach for to help me do my job. Edit: Just checked and the earliest timestamp on the files in that "web site" is 1997-05-19. That web site is almost 20 years old. [0]: http://qsl.net/n9wwv/420.html http://qsl.net/n9wwv/420.html [1]: http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html [2]: http://www.scriptarchive.com/guestbook.html http://www.scriptarchive.com/guestbook.html [3]: http://qsl.net/n9wwv/gbook/guestbook.html http://qsl.net/n9wwv/gbook/guestbook.html