title: How were HTML forms interpreted in the early 90s?
body: <p>In the modern web an HTML <code>&lt;form&gt;</code> element is submitted and then interpreted by scripting. Either it is interpreted by a server side programming language (usually PHP) or it is interpreted by a client side script (almost always JavaScript).</p>
  
  <p>Forms existed even in the early 90s. <strong>How were they interpreted back then?</strong> </p>
  
  <p>According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_(HTML)#Submission" rel="noreferrer">this Wikipedia article</a> there was an email based HTML form submission back then, but it was unreliable. Was this all there was? Why did HTML even have forms if they were so useless without scripting? Or was it a chicken and egg sort of situation?</p>