http://humanstxt.org/ I am a human... and I mangled this site. it's a muddle of random techniques and technology. I've worked as a unix system administrator for a long time. I installed a NCSA httpd back in the late-80's/early-90's. a lot of the tools that generate dynamic content is often CGI-scripts which execute borne-shell scripts. A couple of the sections here were "harvested" from tripod.com. when my kids were young, they built those sites, and I wrote some shell-scripts to pull those pages (and images, etc) --erik