My first ever project was a text-based MMORPG game written in Perl. This was back in 1999, so I have no idea if there is material anywhere on making PHP or Perl

My first ever project was a text-based MMORPG game written in Perl. This was back in 1999, so I have no idea if there is material anywhere on making PHP or Perl games like that, but my approach was to "just make it". That project had 10,000 active users, and it was all word-of-mouth.