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Foil 89 Near and Future Projects

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
WWW/CGI Computing
So far, Web was mainly used for static hypermedia such as local information pages, digital libraries, Internet directories etc. However, the WWW model offers also extension mechanisms (CGI, CCI) towards dynamic services and in fact arbitrary computation
Early interactive Web services appearing. Examples include: WebCalc (NASA Goddard), Easy HTML (NCSA), WebChat (Internet Society), Virtual Doors (Unique, Inc.), Visioneering's Imaging Machine (VRL,Inc.)

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