The original screen scraping was in the context of emulating a 3270 terminal as an "API" into some system running on a mainframe. I worked at a place that allo

The original screen scraping was in the context of emulating a 3270 terminal as an "API" into some system running on a mainframe. I worked at a place that allowed web-based trading in the mid 90s by wrapping a web server (on a sun spark 10) around a single emulated terminal running on a SCO box. It was called screen scraping then, too :)