Back around 1999-2000, there was a popular free forum software that did exactly that: it generated new static pages every time someone made a post or commented

Back around 1999-2000, there was a popular free forum software that did exactly that: it generated new static pages every time someone made a post or commented on the thread. Reviewing my personal timeline, that was before I learned PHP, so it was probably something that ran on Perl. It may have been YaBB (http://sourceforge.net/projects/yabb/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/yabb/) (http://www.yabbforum.com http://www.yabbforum.com) or some predecessor with a long-forgotten name. The earliest commit on that sourceforge site was 2003, but the screenshots look similar to what I remember.