For those unaware Bloxsom was/is what would today be described as a static site generator written in Perl. Like Jekyll et al it just takes plain text files and

For those unaware Bloxsom was/is what would today be described as a static site generator written in Perl. Like Jekyll et al it just takes plain text files and turns them into HTML in the same layout as the source files on disk. It is very extensible and had plugins to handle things like bbCode and MediaWiki markup to embedding Amazon links from an ASIN. Before WordPress ate the blogging world it had some popularity, it didn't need a database or even CGI support.