Comment by inoffensivename

I was a young teen when the world wide web became a thing, my Dad to gave me a copy of the camel book. I used Perl to write everything... A message board, a stats website for a MUD I was playing on, basically anything I could think of to drop in that cgi-bin directory.

All of my code was garbage of course, but it was an incredible amount of fun, a very valuable learning experience.

I miss those days, but that probably has less to do than the programming language and more to do with the carefree days. :-)