What are you talking about?
I was 14 learning PHP in 2003 and every tutorial insisted you salt and use a more secure hashing algorithm.
It’s weird to see people say things so boldly that are so wrong.
That's not how I remember it. There was a lot of
if (md5($_POST['password'])) == password_col) // success!
I unironically smell a conspiracy here.
That's not how I remember it. There was a lot of
floating around in the PHP example code universe.