I love that some of the scripts listed on this page show their most recent release date as 1995/1996.

I just downloaded the zip file for "counter" and dropped a copy of counter.pl into this Gist: https://gist.github.com/simonw/40b057c795ab3a5469909dc07a33f...

It works by shelling out to a separate C program called fly - I found the page for that on the Internet Archive here: https://web.archive.org/web/20000903162730/http://martin.gle...