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At the beginning of 1994, the most notable among new web servers was [[NCSA httpd]] which ran on a variety of [[Unix]]-based OSs and could serve ''dynamically generated content'' by implementing the <code>POST</code> HTTP method and the [[Common Gateway Interface|CGI]] to communicate with external programs. These capabilities, along with the multimedia features of NCSA's [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]] browser (also able to manage [[HTML]] [[Form (HTML)|FORM]]s in order to send data to a web server) highlighted the potential of web technology for publishing and [[distributed computing]] applications.{{image frame

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