cgi - common gateway interface An applicaion that returns a web-page "HTML" to a browser. HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language URL - Uniform Resource Locator - (Location & Query String) Query String - parameters - the text after the '?', serves as input to the cgi program Dynamic vs. Static Content Static - just an html file Dynamic - a program returns html WebServer (Apache) - program that recives web requests and responds to them atoi = ascii to integer