The next morning at Mettingstrasse, I mentioned the travel information system to Rainer, explaining that Digithurst UK was trying to get into the point of sale market. He took me to Hans\u2019 office and showed me a demonstration of an image database similar to the one I saw the previous afternoon. Actually, \u2018PictureBook,\u2019 the name Hans had given the software, was being used for that beta system at Hannover airport. After five weeks without a holiday, most Germans were desperately in need of a break and didn\u2019t much care where they went, so long as it was hot. The holiday \u2018vending machine\u2019 let the customer choose the destination at the airport \u2013 incredibly last-minute.com. What PictureBook had, but our estate agent system did not, was an architecture based on hyperlinking, the technology which, in later years, became a fundamental component of the World Wide Web …<\/p>\n\n\n\n
… (An extract from The Ghost in the Labyrinth by Peter Kruger)<\/em><\/p>\n