I had no idea what I was doing back then - copying scripts from MSA, no idea what chmod or ftp binary mode or even what the unix system I was telnetted into was (couple of years before). Managed to get things working though.
No mention of server-side includes, which were great -- you could include a nav bar on all your pages and just have one file to update, you could include a 'last updated' line at the bottom based on the file modification, you could include a visitor counter.
I did a website for a local art+book shop back in 1997, it was awful. Stopped updating it after 6 months, but it was kept online for some reason - even after the shop closed. archive.org shows the SSI counter was still incrementing in 2005. I assume the (copy-and-paste) code ran a script that opened a file, incremented the number, wrote it back to the file, then printed the number.
No mention of server-side includes, which were great -- you could include a nav bar on all your pages and just have one file to update, you could include a 'last updated' line at the bottom based on the file modification, you could include a visitor counter.
I did a website for a local art+book shop back in 1997, it was awful. Stopped updating it after 6 months, but it was kept online for some reason - even after the shop closed. archive.org shows the SSI counter was still incrementing in 2005. I assume the (copy-and-paste) code ran a script that opened a file, incremented the number, wrote it back to the file, then printed the number.