THE LIVING ARCHIVE

From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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CGI and the Moment Web Servers Began Running Programs

The Common Gateway Interface standardized how web servers could launch external programs, pass request data to them, and turn their output into HTTP responses, opening the early Web to dynamic applications.

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Perl and the Scripting Language That Glued Unix and the Early Web Together

Perl grew from Larry Wall's Unix text-processing needs into a flexible scripting language that connected files, processes, databases, CGI programs and the early Web through a vast culture of reusable modules.

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