| Very little is done in html, it offers the layouts and stuff, but the background work, such as saving posts and whatnot, is done by a server-side script. PHP and Perl/CGI are the most common languages for doing the background stuff, and databases such as MySQL are the most common place to save info (isntead of just a text file).
Your host should give you AT LEAST perl, usually PHP and mysql.
I can give you a copy of invision powerboard 1.3, the last free version, if you like. Besides that, SimpleMachines Forum and PHPBB are two commonly used free options
If you only have perl access, or you don't have a database on your host, there are forums that work just on text and perl or text and php, with no databases needed... You'll have to look for yourself though, I haven't used any of those except for some curious poking a few years ago
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