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Guestbooks. You know them. Or do you?

In today's 90stastic episode of Veronica Explains, I go through the ins and outs of the guestbook, one of the most influential progenitors of modern social media on the web.

We'll even install one from the 90s yes, from Matt's Script Archive, on a brand new Debian 11 install. It'll be "funtertainment!" Come break some Perl with me!

0:00 I say "greetings" and talk about guestbooks
1:31 How I used guestbooks as a 90s teen
5:50 How were guestbooks implemented?
8:16 Can we set up a guestbook today?
8:57 Testing Perl CGI scripts... in 2023
10:45 Installing a guestbook script
14:17 Filtering for spammers with math!
15:15 Pining for the 1990s web, looking forward to the future

#linux #webdesign #retro