Yeah, a lot of younger folks don't get this. In 1995, the web wasn't like today, only slower. There were no web search engines, only catalog pages like Yahoo. Documentation was often so hard to come by, View Source really was your only option if you wanted to learn newer techniques. That AND it was slow: a 14.4 modem downloaded 1MB every 10 minutes under optimal conditions (no one called while you were connected).

CGI.pm was king.