Many things from those days were like that but there was no infrastructure for anything in the 90s at that time and viaweb added e-commerce. You had to write a

Many things from those days were like that but there was no infrastructure for anything in the 90s at that time and viaweb added e-commerce. You had to write a bucket load of Perl cgi-bin horror to do this yourself. PG should edit that Wikipedia entry and fix that last part to read less like what you imply. However, if you check the timeline, you can come to the same conclusion.