How could a webmaster display the current time and date on every page accessed by a client? How could she collect information about clients who were accessing her web site? How could she create a web site that was more than just an information warehouse, but a meaningful and dynamic conversation?

一个网站管理员是如何在客户访问的每张页面上显示当前的时间和日期的呢？他又是如何收集访问他网站的客户的信息的呢？他是如何开发它的网站的呢，以至于使他的网站看上去不仅仅像是一个信息的仓库，而是让人感到意义丰富、动态十足呢？

Certainly, HTML was great for distributing "pre-prepared" web pages on request. A client would use a web browser to contact a web server and use HTTP to ask the web server for a specific HTML document. The web server would then send the requested document back to the web browser which in turn, would display the document as defined by the HTML to the client.

当然，HTML最伟大之处就在于它是基于请求来发布“预先准备”的网页的。客户将通过网络浏览器与服务器进行联系，并且，它使用HTTP 来向服务器寻访指定的HTML 文档。网络服务器将把被请求的文档轮流传回网络浏览器，这样就可以在客户端的浏览器上显示根据HTML所定义的文档了。