UDDI’s Prehistory: How 1995–1998 Web Scripting and CGI Foreshadowed Service Registries (Chapter 79)
UDDI arrived later, but the urge to catalog and discover services began in the 1995–1998 era of CGI scripts, HTML forms, and early browser scripting. This chapter traces how early dynamic web integration shaped the first “registry-like” patterns in web API history.