IIS 6 and previous and MVC

I have IIS 8.5 installed and there is no issue running MVC application,

but i am very much curious to know about the life of developer when IIS 6 and 5 were the only option.

 

There were no HttpRoutingModule on the server, so i think IIS was not able to run MVC application and used to throw some error, as IIS decides who will serve the request based on ISAPI extension , which obviously was impossible in the case of MVC then which steps must have been taken by  the developer  ??

 

1.Url rewriting or

2.force url like {controller}.aspx/{action}/{id} , it is strange though.

 

I don't know how was their life but i am sure it was miserable