The course itself was at Brown University on the same date. Deep Blue's performance relied almost strictly on fast computer hardware. It is just this kind of understanding that automated tutors must possess if they are to help humans learn. The universality of Web standards such as HTML and HTTP is more fragile than it might appear. Even the simple current versions of these protocols do not run on all machines.
Future versions threaten to be even less general.
That said, the current HTML and HTTP standards are far closer to a universal standard for complex computational objects than we have seen before. Perhaps the individual publishers will be transformed by existing institutional standards rather than change them. How freely authors will actually share their online curricula with others, for instance, remains an open question. Historically, the academic community, compared to for-profit publishers, has followed a very open policy. This may be changing.