Before his involvement with what is now the Curl technology, he worked in the areas of programming languages, compilers, and parallel computing. David holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University. When users run applications on their computers, they typically get instant results. Processes are fast, using the local computing power of the machine. Double click the mouse or hit Enter, and the computer starts its work, without delay.
Computers become more powerful each day, and users expect ever more functionality.
So when it comes to performance on the Internet, something's amiss. The promise of the Internet is connection. The World Wide Web is only the first step. It allows anyone to look at documents anywhere in the world without knowing where they are located or how to retrieve them. HTML was designed explicitly for passive documents.