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For the old people, before we had MySQL, this is how we used to have "guest book" on websites. With auto-updating Perl CGI scripts.
by Loic 14y ago
For the old people, before we had MySQL, this is how we used to have "guest book" on websites. With auto-updating Perl CGI scripts.
- buro9 14y agoI remember being so proud of my little PERL message board scipt, nowadays I can't imagine how I thought it would work for as long as it did. Shipping clearly flawed software beat doing things right... less than a day's effort and it ran from 1995 through 1998 without needing any maintenance. I spat out thousands of files, the big problem was going into the directory and trying to make sense of it. We eventually migrated to MySQL out of concern about whether we would hit the directory size limits for number of files. MySQL corrupted more than our file system back then.