Yes. I remember downloading them, as multiple PDF files, one for each broad subsection (like perlsub, perlvar, etc.) under the main TOC or so, over a somewhat

Yes. I remember downloading them, as multiple PDF files, one for each broad subsection (like perlsub, perlvar, etc.) under the main TOC or so, over a somewhat slow Internet cafe connection and then reading many of them. Not only excellent content, but excellent typography and design too, even though they were mainly text. I remember, even now, thinking that the PDFs looked really good.