Nope. You're wrong. A lot of them did use static pages back then. Especially the ones predating PHP. Also a couple of the most popular open source Perl ones. I

Nope. You're wrong. A lot of them did use static pages back then. Especially the ones predating PHP. Also a couple of the most popular open source Perl ones. I remember Matt's wwwboard working like this, for example. Some of them didn't. But A LOT certain did.