Building websites the 1995 way: vi, Perl CGI, tcpdump and a 28.8k modem
OwariDa · x · 2026-10-29
A nostalgic tech thread recounts the full 1990s hand-rolled web stack: writing HTML in vi, backend in Perl CGI, manually configuring Apache, tracing TCP packets with tcpdump, debugging with gdb, and deploying to a Sun SPARCstation over FTP through a 28.8k dial-up modem. The reposter notes he did every single one of these in the mid-90s — a shared memory for early web developers.
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