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When I got to college and got online in 1995, I pretty quickly learned about CGI scripts and the cgi-bin directory, which of course my school did not have enabl
by incanus77 6y ago
When I got to college and got online in 1995, I pretty quickly learned about CGI scripts and the cgi-bin directory, which of course my school did not have enabled on campus-wide accounts (security risks). I really wanted cool stuff like a web hit counter on my page. A lot of web hosts at the time would advertise something like "5MB of space and your own cgi-bin!" and I eventually got to one of these, got into Perl, and start making stuff using Berkeley DB and other on-disk databases. Eventually I outgrew this, found PHP & MySQL, found a web host who supported it, went to work at that web host, ... All said, CGI's were totally the reason I got into internet programming.