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I was given a task to finish a webshop with online payments and hotel room reservations for a spa in 1996ish. It was started in perl, though I moved it to PHP a bit later.

I was 16 and was doing an actual summer job at the time (hard labour, 8-12 hours), so doing that was a good balancing thing. But the outcome wasn't very good, I had quite little concept of how to structure the program well. But I did finish it and the shop went into production.

I'm pretty sure, or at least sincerely hope they threw all of it away in the next iteration :)



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