Web browsers accessing multiple Web servers is the architecture for the next wave of client/server computing. Carry this approach a little further and we will see the resurrection of big applications running on big servers that are accessed by “skinny” clients running Web browsers – the modern equivalent of massive time-sharing machines connected to thousands of terminals.
Predictor: Grochow, Jerrold M.
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Computerworld, Jerrold Grochow discusses the future structure of the Internet. He writes: ”Web browsers accessing multiple Web servers is the architecture for the next wave of client/server computing. Carry this approach a little further and we will see the resurrection of big applications running on big servers that are accessed by ‘skinny’ clients running Web browsers – the modern equivalent of massive time-sharing machines connected to thousands of terminals.”
Date of prediction: December 26, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Pipeline/Switching/Hardware
Name of publication: Computerworld
Title, headline, chapter name: Client/Server’s Future Is On the Web
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?Did=000000008929214&Fmt=3&Deli=1&Mtd=1&Idx=1&Sid=2&RQT=309
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