I remember developing an "interactive CD" with an Encyclopedia in 1998, which distributed a customized version of IE 3.2 (IIRC using something called the "Inter

I remember developing an "interactive CD" with an Encyclopedia in 1998, which distributed a customized version of IE 3.2 (IIRC using something called the "Internet Explorer Development Kit"). The search function consisted of Javascript code calling an applet (which did the search using an internal database implemented in pure data structures within the code) and writing the results in the HTML. The database inside the Applet was so big, that I had to split it in two to be able to compile it (or was it for it to run? I don't remember the exact issue). That's 25 years ago. Wow.