Thinking I sorta liked it when you had to learn perl, apache, and html to smear the web with dumbassery. It was a modest barrier to entry.
♣ Nostalgia
You youngsters! Before Perl there was C and before Apache there were Cern and WASD and OSU-DECthreads servers.
Real Men ™ coded HTML in text files and uploaded them with ftp.
:-)