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It's funny that there's contention on this. Here's someone trying to answer the question in 2002: > The purpose of this document is to answer the question "When did we start seeing web-forms that captured credit-card details, and passed them to CGI-scripts, thereby enabling interaction with server-side applications <http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/WCBirth.html http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/WCBirth.html>