Thank you everyone for your responses. To answer chromatic's question I write web applications. Several serve weather satellite imagery:
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/TC.html
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/NEXSAT.html

One is a web based system monitoring tool:
http://jaws.nrlmry.navy.mil/coamps-os/cgi-bin/COAMPSOS_rmon_run_cgi.sh?COAMPSOS_rmon_monitor.cgi

All done in Perl using CGI.pm