[HN Gopher] Matt's Script Archive (1995)
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Matt's Script Archive (1995)
Author : huang_chung
Score : 40 points
Date : 2025-03-02 20:06 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.scriptarchive.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.scriptarchive.com)
| dang wrote:
| Related. Others?
|
| _Matt 's Script Archive, Inc.: Free Perl CGI Scripts_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33305258 - Oct 2022 (2
| comments)
|
| _Matt 's Script Archive_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31789342 - June 2022 (1
| comment)
|
| _Matt 's Script Archive. Offering free CGI scripts to the web
| community since 1995_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30391802 - Feb 2022 (1
| comment)
| xnx wrote:
| Wow. Amazing that this page exists virtually unchanged from 30
| years ago.
|
| We've definitely lost some part of the charm of the early web
| when it was common to get email, web space, FTP, and even shell
| access from your ISP.
| morganf wrote:
| OMG. Just the name brings back memories.
| Tijdreiziger wrote:
| Last updated in (2009), it seems.
| ekanes wrote:
| Gosh. Seeing that is kind of more ... emotional than I'd have
| expected. Gonna print a screenshot of it for the memories folder.
| It was just such a different time. Can't imagine what later
| generations would think was the point of things like a web
| counter, but golly that was so cool back in the day. :)
|
| "Display a text count of visitors to your web pages. Includes:
| zero padding, file locking, linking the count, displaying begin
| date and counting multiple pages."
| susam wrote:
| Exactly! These old websites from the 90s that are still alive
| carry such a powerful dose of nostalgia. I wrote and published
| my first public website on GeoCities. Sadly, that's lose to
| time. The second one I wrote was published on 20m.com which
| offered 20 MB of free hosting space and a custom subdomain.
| That was more than 20 years ago. Incredibly 20m.com and that
| silly website of mine are still online:
| <http://encoders.20m.com/>!
|
| If you scroll down, you'll find the obligatory visitor count on
| the sidebar. That's still running too! You can't see in the
| published HTML but that visitor counter is generated by an ISML
| tag. <isml type="counter">
|
| It's fascinating how some forgotten corners of the web are
| still quietly running, long after the rest of the Internet has
| moved on.
| McGlockenshire wrote:
| Like many, I got my start with perl by finding myself having to
| customize a WWWBoard. The site owner then switched to a new perl
| based forum that used flat linear threads, the Ultimate Bulletin
| Board. (Which itself is based on code in Selena Sol's "Instant
| CGI/Perl"!) So, I learned that too. The guy that made it had a
| forum for it where other people were sharing their changes to the
| code, mind you this was a commercial product. The company ended
| up hiring a handful of us from that forum. I ended up doing the
| coding on the perl UBB for five years, launching my career.
|
| So, thanks Matt. Your code may not have aged well, but it touched
| millions and millions of people.
| ourcat wrote:
| Ahhh, WWWBoard. Those were the days!
| threeio wrote:
| I spent so much time hacking on scripts from here in the those
| early internet days... ahh memories.
| notadev wrote:
| WWWBoard is such a nostalgia hit. My local music venue's forum
| was where my early internet persona originated. Sometimes I
| nostalgic and use Wayback machine to see what all my fellow
| teenagers were talking about 25 years ago.
| krapp wrote:
| You can still find some of these boards online. It's like
| seeing a thylacene crossing the street.
| mattwright wrote:
| 30 years since I posted that first script back in high school!
| Thanks for all the love (and some hate) since then. :) Let me
| know if you have any questions, I'll try to answer.
| rahimnathwani wrote:
| I'm amazed that you created an HN account in 2014 but that this
| is your first comment. How did you resist the temptation to
| comment for so many years?
| sejje wrote:
| I asked dang once and he said like 1% of visitors comment.
| mattgreenrocks wrote:
| Thank you for this site. It helped me learn Perl and use it to
| make some cool CGI scripts.
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