Do you think the web Peaked with Perl-based CGI-scripts? In some very important ways, yes. Specifically, it was still within the contraints of what HTTP and HT

Do you think the web Peaked with Perl-based CGI-scripts? In some very important ways, yes. Specifically, it was still within the contraints of what HTTP and HTML were designed for: the transfer and rendering of marked up documents. Obviously all technology is x steps forward, y steps back, and you aim for some workable linear combination of x and y, but there have definitely been several regressions since the days of Perl-based CGI scripts, and I personally haven't found them worth the advances.