
More Fun with Online Data - A Dynamic Screen Scrape
As the web has matured, there have been a great number of changes in the way that information is presented to the user. Though this is not a true history, a simplified story might start with static web pages that just sent HTML to the client, later including styling information and perhaps some JavaScript to coerce a certain look. These would be considered static pages. Server side improvements like the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) allowed for programming to change the page