I would ask Stein as well, see what he knows about those old cgi days. He might be able to tell you he was employing a different framework of CGI 5years before the patent, then again he might tell you a patent inspired his design =D.
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Evan Carroll
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In reply to Re: Looking for old Perl CGI code by EvanCarroll
in thread Looking for old Perl CGI code by ton

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