Yes, they do.

I was contacted by Google solely through my website (which I hadn't updated in about 3 years). Still, they'd found it, using a pretty funky search, and then they emailed me asking if I would like to be interviewed.

As a further indictment of HR drones :-), I aced the technical interviews (including several by phone and about 4 or 5 back-to-back technical interviews onsite), but then they mysteriously "had no projects that matched my skill set" once everything got to HR.

Yep, you can go as old-skool as you like.

I build Flash apps regularly using ant from the command line and VIM for editing.