Re:Lines of code that changed everything
by xorcist on Thursday November 28, 2019 @05:49AM
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> before 1998 or so
Yeah, it's a bit older than that. According to Wikipedia, the CGI standard is from 1993 so it probably predates Apache itself by quite a bit (which was forked from the NCSA httpd which already had CGI support).
By 1998 mod_perl and mod_php had already taken over for most people and dynamic content was generated in-process. FastCGI existed but sadly didn't really take off, and the code languished until for some reasons a decade later it had a sudden and unexpected renaissance.
Yeah, it's a bit older than that. According to Wikipedia, the CGI standard is from 1993 so it probably predates Apache itself by quite a bit (which was forked from the NCSA httpd which already had CGI support).
By 1998 mod_perl and mod_php had already taken over for most people and dynamic content was generated in-process. FastCGI existed but sadly didn't really take off, and the code languished until for some reasons a decade later it had a sudden and unexpected renaissance.