In the early 1990s, most web pages were static HTML documents(with the exception of CGI applicationsthat wereusually written in Perl). In the mid-1990s new languages, such as ASP, ColdFusion and PHP, were developed specifically for use in the web.Shortly after that, first libraries aimed at solvingcommon tasksspecific for the web development (e.g. generating HTML) were created. Collections of these libraries can be considered as early Web-application frameworks