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Re:The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org by isostatic on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @03:39PM (#17128784)
How great perl is, how long it lasts with minimal effort. Not many active sites from that era that still functioning, let alone ones maintained by 1 person.

By comparison, Google was still in beta at that stage, youtube was still 6 years away, and Mark Zuckerburg was 14.

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Re:The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org by joslin01 on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @04:00PM (#17128932)
<nevermind>
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Re:The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org by orbitur on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @04:07PM (#17128972)
The first section says the site was started in 1999.
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