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1993

* 02 Jun '93: Dave Raggett updates his HTML+ DTD to include support for "INPUT and SELECT form interaction elements"[0]
* 05 Sep '93: Marc Andreessen says NCSA Mosaic 2.0 will submit form parameters as: "name=value&name=value&name=value"[1]
* 13 Sep '93: Rob McCool announces NCSA httpd 1.0a1[2], which supports:

    "server scripts, which are executable programs which the server runs to generate documents on the fly. They are easy to write and can be written in your favorite language, whether it be C, PERL, or even the Bourne shell" [3]


* 14 Nov '93: Rob McCool complains that his users are avoiding writing code because they think the interface will change, and throws open a bunch of open-issues he wants fixing in what he calls the "gateway"

* 17 Nov '93: Rob McCool releases "CGP/1.0 specification"[7], renamed to CGI two days later

* 13 Dec '93: NCSA httpd 1.0 released, with "CGI" support[6]

[0] http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q2/0430.html
[1] http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q3/0812.html
[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.infosystems.www/qd9cQTogWig
[3] http://www6.uniovi.es/~antonio/ncsa_httpd/info/Scripts.html
[4] https://github.com/TooDumbForAName/ncsa-httpd/blob/1.1/cgi-bin/test-cgi
[5] http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q4/0485.html
[6] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.infosystems.www/g4UxMaqf0Mg
[7] http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q4/0518.html