CGI:
Common Gateway Interface

Do you have to know anything about CGIs to use a web board? No.

For Ryakuga, CGIs are important beacuse they allow us to set up a website that is an interactive rather than just a passive, consumer experience. When you post your message on the web board, you actually trigger a program to run on the web server itself.

Matt Wright was a teenager in Illinois when he wrote the CGI program - WWWBOARD. In 1995 he created Matt's Script Archive - a collection of freeware CGI programs. In 1998 he and Craig Patchett wrote The CGI/Perl Cookbook, which is a compendium of CGI programs and information.

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Matt's Script Archive

The CGI/Perl Cookbook

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