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A Brief History of Web Forms
1993: HTML forms
1994–2001: Nothing happened
Today: XForms
Notes:
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.
Labor intensive to print
Require paper and ink to print
Difficult and expensive to distribute
Tedious to fill out
Difficult and expensive to retrieve data