At the time i started playing around with perl, i guess i thought i needed it for CGI scripts. ASP, PHP, and Ruby weren't really around, or if they were i definitely hadn't heard about them.

My friend from california got me started on it, i was wanting to make some simple message board stuff for Mechwarrior 3 clan websites, only to find out it's a little more involved than just -poof- message board! :-)