Here is the equivalent of every single mid sized "php" project listed on freelancer now:

I'd like a custom designed electric car.
Budget: $750.

And in 1999:

I need a literal pile of dog poop.
Budget: $10,000

@Otakurist

I just wanted to see if there was any low hanging fruit, maybe a copy/paste for $500?

Nope. Quite the opposite.
Looks like people who got fucked for a 10k static website in 1999 are getting their revenge.

i saw some guy asking for a new operating system written in php :) budget was a bazilion dolars... also another one... at that time some chinese politician was about to come to my country, and there was a job at a freelancer.com to investigate if there will be any riots here...

Pretty sure freelancer site didn't exist in 1999

@Cangaroo it used to be called something else I think

Or there were other similars