The article is an explanation (defense?) of the author's library Powtils[0], which was created in February 2004[1].

Even in 2004 I think it would have been extremely unusual to write web applications in Pascal and serve them via CGI. The first edition of Lazarus was released in 2001, and the name gives a hint about Pascal's popularity at the time. From what I remember of that era, PHP was dominant and FastCGI was a popular way to hook it up to non-Apache webservers such as IIS.

[0] http://z505.com/powtils/idx.shtml

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20040604122859/http://www.psp.fu...