> We also have code for a hypertext server. You can use this to make files available (like anonymous FTP but faster because it only uses one connection). Yo

> We also have code for a hypertext server. You can use this to make files available (like anonymous FTP but faster because it only uses one connection). You can also hack it to take a hypertext address and generate a virtual hypertext document from any other data you have - database, live data etc. It's just a question of generating plain text or SGML (ugh! but standard) mark-up on the fly. The browsers then parse it on the fly. This was surprising to me. When people talk about the history of the web they make it seem like it was only intended for serving static documents, so reading Tim Berners-Lee talking about dynamic web pages in 1991 was unexpected.