A brief overview of the technology underlying the Bahá'í Library Online circa 2003, and why this technology represents the next step in the Internet's evolution [since this essay was written, the term Web 2.0 has been popularized for said "next step"].
This is a brief summary written by a layperson, not a polished article. I prepared it so that users of the Bahá'í Library Online (myself included!) would better understand the way this new system works and its potential. See also wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0.