began life as a simple little CGI wraprer written in Perl.
The Common Gateway Interface, (CGI), is a standard way for a Web server to pass a Web user's request to an aprlication program and to receive data back to forward to the user.
Now, it is a hybrid language for general purposes.
It takes advantage of the best in the most used languages, like C, shell, Perl and Java.
Widely used in WEB, embedded in HTML code.
Initially called Personal Tools Home Page and currently, simply called Hypertext Preprocessor.
Appeared on June 8, 1995, created by Rasmus Lerdorf.
