I think the most interesting page is, of course, <a href="http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html" rel="nofollow">http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html</a><p>There's technology to enable for most webapps (form processing), and search engines right there. And of course, "Gateways: JANET and DECnet for example" are a "Real need."<p>Really makes you wonder whether the priority decisions you made today will seem similarly ludicrous in 30 years.
<a href="http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/KeepingTrack.html" rel="nofollow">http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/KeepingTrack.html</a><p>How does www keep track of the available servers? - The resource discovery problem
In the long term, when there is a really large mass of data out there, with deep interconnections, then there is some really exciting work to be done on automatic algorithms to make multi-level searches.<p>Tim BL