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A Brief History of Web Forms
–B.Web: Proprietary; binary formats
–1993: HTML forms
–1994–2001: Nothing happened
–Today: XForms
Forms evoke Victorian Romance, but are in fact really boring! 19th Century paper forms are the least efficient.
Cost is approximately $500 (in 2001 dollars) to process a paper form.
1)Labor intensive to print
2)Require paper and ink to print
3)Difficult and expensive to distribute
4)Tedious to fill out
5)Difficult and expensive to retrieve data