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| [[File:Heyuri CGI 2023-10-25.png|thumb|alt=Front page of Heyuri CGI|The front page of Heyuri CGI as it appeared on 2023/10/25]] | | [[File:Heyuri example image.png]] |
| '''Heyuri★CGI''' is a subsection of [[Heyuri]] that houses [[Perl|CGI/Perl]] scripts for [[Bulletin board|bulletin boards]], [[Web chat|web chats]], [[CGI games|CGI games]], and moar.
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| It was launched on July 7, 2023, and is primarily operated by [[anonwaha]], who has modified and translated virtually all the scripts hosted there.
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| == CGI? But I don't see any polygons... ==
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| [[File:Common Gateway Interface logo.png|thumb|alt=CGI logo|The official CGI logo]]
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| CGI in this case refers to '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface Common Gateway Interface]''', which is a [[TEH OLD]] way to allow a server to run executable scripts/programs that can process HTTP/S requests. Basically, it allowed early web users to create interactive and dynamic websites.
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| == So what's the big deal? ==
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| In Japan especially, there was a [[HUEG]] web culture centered around open source CGI scripts (not least of which were the [[Ayashii World]]-type bulletin board, the [[2channel|2ch]]-type [[Bulletin board|bulletin board]], and the [[Imageboard|imageboard]]). There was also a hueg CGI game (<span lang="ja">CGIゲーム</span>) scene in the late-1990s and early-2000s in Japan—to the point where it has been described as a "craze"—that went totally under the radar of the West.
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| Most die-hard [[weeaboo|Japanophiles]] and retro-web enthusiasts are completely unaware of anything besides 2ch-type bulletin boards and imageboards in this area, and as of 2023 there's virtually no English-language documentation of the existence of CGI games outside of Heyuri (see! Heyuri really ''is'' "the place to be"!).
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| With that in mind, the concept behind Heyuri★CGI is to bring these "missing elements" of the 1990s/2000s Japanese web to the English-speaking web of the 2020s, filling in some gaps that many don't even realize exist.
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| == Links ==
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| * [https://cgi.heyuri.net/ Heyuri★CGI]
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| * [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGIゲーム Wikipedia article on CGI games (Japanese)]
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