Uh, the early versions of PHP was written in Perl running under mod_perl, which was not CGI. Also, e.g. fastcgi was around the same time frame. (In order not

Uh, the early versions of PHP was written in Perl running under mod_perl, which was not CGI. Also, e.g. fastcgi was around the same time frame. (In order not to end up in a flame war regarding the first point I checked wikipedia -- see second paragraph of the intro here. :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_perl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_perl )