All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
I use a lot of the Web 2.0 apps that I've seen out there, and I think there is incredible work going on there.
Compunet was fantastic. You could upload these little demos of what you'd been working on, and it was a really nice social scene - years before the Internet.
I just became one with my browser software.
WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands.
The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly.
I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.
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