r one advance paves the way for another. 10 Remember the Tim Berners-Lee proposal; the World Wide Web, it was simply termed a “hypertext system." It became more than that. In our definition of what the World Wide Web is, it explains that the Web is a cleverly designed collection of technologies. These technologies provided the Web team with materials, tools, and most importantly a knowledge base for the next stage of develoment. This allows for the very real possibilities that other technologies will soon merge from it. The Internet, it was said, is in need of a “killer app”(advanced application). It needs one tool, one program, one application that would take it from being a much-hyped but difficult-to-use linking of computers around the world to being a highly informative, highly usable database and communication tool. The spreadsheet was the killer app for PCs a long time ago, but so far the Net doesn’t have one. Some have given killer app status to the popular program Mosaic, but Mosaic still has it's difficulties and limitations. The same holds true for the equally popular Netscape Navigator, which also has been touted as a killer app, and for all the various, alternative and commercial Web browsers that have hit the market over the past year. The true killer app of the Internet remains somewhere around the corner, and nobody knows if just one killer app can handle the Internets complexity. Until we have one, we simply will not know.What the Internet does have, however, is a killer concept - the World Wide Web.In only a few short years of its existence, the Web has captured the imagination of data searchers and information surfers alike. Is its popularity difficult to understand? The World Wide Web provides the technology needed to offer a navigable, attractive interface for the Internet’s vast array of resources, in much the same way that the tool bar on a word processor screen obscures the intimidat...
