This document discusses the history and evolution of Perl web development from CGI scripts in the 1990s to modern web frameworks. It covers early technologies like CGI, mod_perl, FastCGI and introduces newer standards like PSGI/Plack that unify Perl web development. It emphasizes how PSGI/Plack abstracted web servers and allowed frameworks like Catalyst to flourish.
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