2026-06-22 19:01 UTC
I decided that I needed to write a bit about Matt’s Script Archive, the website that armed hundreds of thousands of weekend website makers with the forums and guestbooks they needed back in 1996.
Just one problem: The scripts were horribly insecure.
https://tedium.co/2026/06/22/matts-script-archive-retrospective/
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@ernie@writing.exchange 2026-06-22 19:01
“Programmers who weren’t in high school and weren’t so wet behind the ears looked aghast at what Wright had done: He had spread poorly designed, but widely used software across the internet.” https://tedium.co/2026/06/22/matts-script-archive-retrospective/