do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

[Captain Obvious]

 XL> ... i recall, i stopped doing Mathematica in 1998 because it's a
 XL> career dead-end as a programing lang, and dived into the utterly
 XL> idiotic Perl & unix & mysql world. (See: The Unix Pestilence ◇ Xah
 XL> Lee's Computing Experience (Impression Of Lisp from Mathematica).)

I guess you're calling "idiotic" everything you're too lazy to understand.

 XL> today were under 10 in the 1990s. They wouldn't know what was CGI, and
 XL> no amount of explanation can tell them exactly it was like, because it
 XL> has become HISTORY — if you didn't live it, you can't feel it.

CGI is still used in some places today, hello?
If spawning a process for each request is what you want to do, it is a way 
to go.

inetd is quite similar to CGI and, guess what, it is still used.