The history of how websites went from static and memoryless to dynamic with both client-side and server-side persistence (cookies and cgi) needs to be told better. All I can find is fragments in Wikipedia pages.
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This looks pretty good
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@ricmac’s Web History Project is the best thing like this that I am aware of webdevelopmenthistory.com/1993-cgi-scrip
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’s Web History Project is the best thing like this that I am aware of
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a (long) while back i tried to do some digging for some oral history around the origins of cgi and the guy basically told me to piss off
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my friend was asking wtf is the cgi-bin folder for the other day.. i first used NewsPro (perl) to make a site in like 2000
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Yes but looking for a narrative history
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because we (tech) don't value our own history, we don't bother writing it as we go
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