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Understanding CGI Programs for Dynamic Websites in the Early 2000s

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11mo ago· 6 min readenNews

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The article discusses the use of CGI programs in the early 2000s to make websites dynamic, focusing on the mechanism of handling incoming requests and executing CGI scripts.

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In the early 2000s, we used to write a lot of CGI programs. This was the primary way to make websites dynamic at the time. These CGI programs were usually written in Perl, but sometimes in C to increase performance. The CGI mechanism is conceptually simpl

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