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Re: Third-party browser enhancements?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Janssen)
Fri Sep 2 01:25:53 1994

Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 06:09:17 +0200
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Excerpts from ext.WorldWideWeb: 1-Sep-94 Re: Third-party browser enh..
David C. Martin@library. (3331)

>  Researchers at the U. of California have created software for embedding
>  interactive program objects within hypermedia documents.  Previously,
>  object linking and embedding (OLE) has been employed on single machines or
>  local area networks using MS Windows -TM-.  This UC software is the
>  first instance where program objects have been embedded in documents 
>  over an open and distributed hypermedia environment such as the 
>  World Wide Web on the Internet.

Sorry, this was done years ago in a number of systems -- CMU's freely
available Andrew system comes to mind.

Bill

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