Highly interactive WWW services: a new type of information sources
Patrick Vanouplines, Paul Nieuwenhuysen · 1996
The World Wide Web is evolving from a collection of texts linked by hypertext and hypermedia towards services that operate interactively with the information user, and which offer results through use of a broad spectrum of tools. This is demonstrated with the help of existing WWW services: a collection of interactive WWW services has been assembled and is made available through http://www.vub.ac.belBIBLIO/InteractiveServices.html. The services can be classified on the basis of the client software required to access them. The evolution of the services is shown with the help of examples. In the future more services will probably produce (multimedia) results based on information located on several (distributed) servers, in a close interaction with the user.