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by swetland 1476 days ago
This repo archives a bunch of ncsa httpd releases: https://github.com/TooDumbForAName/ncsa-httpd

cgi_src/jj.c exists in 1.1, but not 0.5 (and no versions between those two are in the archive)

0.5 - 6 sep 1993 - http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q3/0828.ht...

1.0 - 13 dec 1993 - http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q4/0811.ht...

1.1 - 24 jan 1994 - http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1994q1/0282.ht...

I suspect it was added by 1.0 as that's when "the htbin stuff is no longer distributed, CGI/1.0 versions of your old favorites are included instead", but definitely exists in the 1.1 snapshot on github.

It was modified or removed at some point later on, after complaints from Jimmy Johns about abuse.

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Cool! And that means it predates the pizza example.

Though then it's a question of what "sold online" means, vs. "ordered online".

Yeah, I can well believe it's easily abused!