THE WEB SITES THAT PAID FOR MY MODEM, MY RENT, AND SOME OF MY MOUNTAIN DEW

Things I Built

Not every site made it through the great redesign plagues of the early 2000s. A few survived long enough for me to brag about them here.

Netscape Navigator 4.05 - CareerNet 2000 _ [] X
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CareerNet 2000

"The Internet's #1 Job Board" (*in our apartment)

PositionSalaryStatus
Java Developer$45,000/yrHot!
Webmaster$38,000/yrImmediate
Perl Programmer$52,000/yrURGENT

2.3 million page views! (mostly our moms refreshing)

Powered by Perl 5.004 | Apache 1.3 | CGI.pm | A prayer
Netscape Navigator 4.05 - CaseFinder Legal Search _ [] X
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CaseFinder Legal Search

FIND A LAWYER IN YOUR AREA
State:
Practice Area:

Built for a law firm that paid us in "exposure." The exposure was to their billing department.

98% uptime! (we restart Apache every Tuesday at 3 AM)
Netscape Navigator 4.05 - Lepercum's Chat Room _ [] X
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Lepercum's Chat Room

CoolDude99: a/s/l?
PerlGirl: 25/f/san jose
Lepercum: does anyone know how to fix a seg fault in mod_perl?
CoolDude99: a/s/l???

Peak concurrent users: 12. Peak concurrent bots: 340.

Netscape Navigator 4.05 - The Original Guestbook _ [] X
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The Original Guestbook

>> WebMaster2000 signed in from Netscape 4.04
>> Anonymous wrote: "first"
>> Lepercum's Mom says hi to everyone on the World Wide Web

My first CGI script. 47 lines of Perl. 3 security vulnerabilities. A classic.

Source code available upon request (just kidding, it's spaghetti. Beautiful, beautiful spaghetti.)

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