A method and apparatus for making a hypermedium interactive

System and method for interacting with a hypermedia, in one embodiment, the system includes a hyperlink on the hypermedia page displayed by a client node, a hyperlink configuration file (corresponding to the client node hyperlink) located at a network server node and a client agent located at the client node . In response to a user activating the hyperlink on the hypermedia page, the client agent establishes a communication link from the client agent to an application run server agent at an application server, using information in the configuration file received from the network server node. In response to the creation of the communication link between the application run server agent and the client agent, the application is executed by the application run server, and the user can interactively use this application from the client node. Feeding and displaying of data takes place at the client node under the control of the client agent.