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Client/Server, from dBASE to JAVA: The Next Step
Source: George Schussel Published: Nov 1997
In this article, Schussel explains how client/server is evolving to support the emerging Internet paradigm. He discusses how the Internet is itself a 3 to N-tier client/server network. Well known Internet applications like Gopher, FTP (File Transfer Protocol), the World Wide Web and SMTP (Internet mail) are client/server in architecture. Schussel discusses first and second generation web applications.
In 1996 he predicted that: As you think about the future of the Internet it’s likely to have the following characteristics:
1.TV quality video and CD quality audio transmittable over HTTP and interpreted by your browser, regardless of operating system.
2. Browsers have become the next “killer application”, joining spreadsheets and word processors. In addition, however, all desktop applications will get browser/Internet buttons.
3. The Internet itself becomes a universal and ubiquitous broadband digital dialtone. Cable companies, telephone companies and wireless operators all compete to provide that dialtone.
