Good question. I don't have a good answer, but my guess is that it refers to the cgi scripts that use to prevail before and also to all the scripts that every s

Good question. I don't have a good answer, but my guess is that it refers to the cgi scripts that use to prevail before and also to all the scripts that every sys admins have written to make their job easier. At one point Perl was called "The duct tape of the internet", I guess referring to all the small scripts tying things together.