HTML forms – Page 5 – Automated Hacks

Chapter 4 (1990–1994): Before JavaScript—How Early HTTP Interfaces Turned the Web Into the First Web API Platform

From HTTP/0.9 and early URLs to HTML forms and MIME types, 1990–1994 quietly created the web’s first practical API surface—long before JavaScript existed.

Chapter 3 (1990–1994): HTML Forms as the Web’s First User-to-Server API Pattern

Before JSON, before REST, and before public developer portals, HTML forms quietly created the first mainstream user-to-server API pattern on the early Web—turning clicks into structured HTTP requests.