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A static page is a document whose contents were created by an author, and not intended to change. Originally the World Wide Web was populated almost exclusively by static pages. Increasingly the web is made up of "pages" whose content is generated on-the-fly from information held in databases.

Modern web documents can respond to the user without interacting with the Web Server. They started to do this by using CGI scripts, but are increasingly using modern languages, frameworks and databases to generate complex documents "on-the-fly".