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dave84 on Aug 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Time.gif

Pretty sure the C was on the server in this instance.

hiram112 on Aug 12, 2017 [–]

Yes CGI was just an API between the web server and a an executable to handle the call, really no different than how Apache talks with mod-PHP.

C was used, but Perl quickly became more popular.

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