MCP is CGI for agents. Same genius. Same sins, already arriving. The genius starts in 1993, at the NCSA in Illinois. The web is static files, and Rob McCool needs it not to be. His answer becomes the Common Gateway Interface, later frozen as RFC 3875. Drop an executable in cgi-bin/. The server dumps the request into environment variables (QUERY_STRING, REMOTE_ADDR, REQUEST_METHOD, §4 lists them…