OAuth 1.0 arrived much later, but the core problems it solved—third-party access without password sharing—were already visible in 1995–1998 web development patterns like CGI, cookies, and early browser scripting.
JWT didn’t exist in 1990–1994, but the Web’s first HTTP interfaces already wrestled with the same API authentication problems: stateless requests, shared gateways, and portable identity. This chapter traces the roots of token-based auth from early HTTP, Basic auth, CGI sessions, and the arrival of cookies.
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