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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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