Methods and apparatus for making a hypermedium interactive

A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions executable by a processor within a client computing device to obtain application data, the computer readable medium comprising:

• non-transitory computer-readable instructions to select a hyperlink within a graphical interface of a web portal displayed on a display device in communication with a client computing device, the hyperlink corresponding to an application;
• non-transitory computer-readable instructions to receive, in response to the selection of the hyperlink, a configuration file associated with the hyperlink;
• non-transitory computer-readable instructions to identify, using the received configuration file, a server capable of executing the corresponding application;
• non-transitory computer-readable instructions to establish a communication protocol providing communication between the identified server and the client computing device, the communication protocol facilitating communication over one or more channels;
• non-transitory computer-readable instructions to receive, from the server via one of the channels, application data generated by the application executing on the server;
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• non-transitory computer-readable instructions to display the received application data on the display device.