Submit test to CGI program option for test Results Submission

I'm new to Lectora and am doing some longer term planning before actually embarking on a project. Of particular interest is capturing test results of a course residing on a web server (not an LMS).

My specific question is this: Does "CGI" really mean "CGI" or is it being generically used to mean any server-side technology, such as PHP?

The documentation includes a Perl example (which is really does use CGI) and an ASP example, which isn't really CGI, which prompts my question.

Thanks.