"why they didn't catch on" is sort of false because they were very dominant for many years. It might predate the author but we were doing a lot of CGI with ruby

"why they didn't catch on" is sort of false because they were very dominant for many years. It might predate the author but we were doing a lot of CGI with ruby and PHP before the days of nginx or the fpm patch. In a time when Apache httpd lightpd were dominant. When BerkeleyDB was a standard. I think generations post a technology make some assumptions about their popularity given they were never the users of them. I assure you, perl that dominated all server scripting was primarily a CGI based model on the web. Eventually technologies die out to iteration in safety, security, ease of use and generally generational changeover in developers who always opt out of the current model for the new shiny thing. Anyway I'm hoping for the revival of CGI mostly because it just make sense.