Browser-based computing is the use of theweb browsers to perform computing tasks. Opportunities for computing on the Web have been noted as far back as 1997.[1] Computing over the web was described in 2000.[2] Applications includedistributed computing forweb workers as illustrated by James (formerly CrowdProcess) andHASH, the use of the browser's stack in QMachine,[3] the embedding of web applications as semantichypermedia components[4] and the Signaling Server inPeer-to-peer networks set viaWebRTC.[5] Browser-based computing complementscloud computing, because they reduce server-side computational load, often using cloud-hosted,RESTfulweb services.