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Re:Opera Unite reinvents the Web: a Web server on the Web br... by vorador on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @12:08PM (#660403)
You are maybe to young to have known it, but HyperCard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercard) is typically the kind of application that could be distributed via Opera Unite.
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Re:Opera Unite reinvents the Web: a Web server on the Web br... by pbhj on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @07:31PM (#661102)
Or, perhaps even web pages?

Wasn't hypercard a precursor to the web?

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Re:Opera Unite reinvents the Web: a Web server on the Web br... by vorador on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @12:55AM (#661388)
It was more like a database that you could program graphically and that was accessible for newbies. And actually, Ward Cunningham wrote the first wiki with it.

http://www.jaedworks.com/hypercard/

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