I want to thank you for Matt's Script Archive. I never actually used it, and I often had to help novice Perl programmers who'd gotten bad ideas from it and were writing terrible code, but in my book that's far better than if they had found the world of programming too forbidding to approach. You're responsible for opening the world of programming to many people, and I appreciate that.

> some of the worst code on the internet

After enough time elapses (and it has!) it transitions from being "bad code" to just nostalgia-inducing.

Take a gander at the code over at TUHS. The original vi from UCB, for instance, wouldn't be considered "good code" by anyone's standards in the past 40+ years, but nobody is thinking poorly of Bill Joy, Mary Ann Horton, or anyone else involved.

What amazes me most is: How the hell did you maintain interest in keeping the site alive after so much time had elapsed? 1995 was so different from e.g. 2009 and I imagine the same was true of you.

Despite the imperfections in your work, you still contributed something amazing to the internet. Even the imperfections ended up helping people. Thank you.