This sounds super interesting; a bunch of questions:
Did you just sent multiple images concatenated into the output stream, including file headers? And Mosaic would actually replace the first image with the second and so on? Was the CGI script referenced in an <img> tag?
Honestly, it was 23 years ago and I forgot the exact details. I still remember the meeting though. The feeling of dread, excitement, and ridiculousness of knocking out such a powerful machine (at the time) in order to server animated smiley faces.
Nowadays, I knock out powerful machines doing slightly more useful things.
Did you just sent multiple images concatenated into the output stream, including file headers? And Mosaic would actually replace the first image with the second and so on? Was the CGI script referenced in an <img> tag?
What image format was this?