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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Tag: web-servers

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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Apache and the ‘Apache Way’: From Shared Web-Server Patches to a Software Foundation

Apache grew from developers sharing patches to an abandoned NCSA web server into a foundation model built around public mailing lists, project committees, community continuity and vendor-neutral stewardship.

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