I had no idea about the Apache and Perl version dependencies that you had to pay your way out of.

My hats off to the devs.

the problems LJ solved back then are universal to any high-load system, and the solutions they/we came up with are still in use today

Yes. So many facebook fanboys need to be slapped upside the head with a copy of memcached.

Meanwhile, at the job I'm starting next week, I'm inheriting a 10 year old HTML:Mason deployment! Woo!