Abstract: An apparatus for and method of utilizing an Internet terminal coupled to the world wide web to access data from a legacy data base via a legacy data base management system wherein said legacy data base and said legacy data base management system are incompatible. The user request is passed to the legacy data base management system via the Internet. The user request is converted into a form which can log-on and log-off from the legacy data base. Other commands when converted can fetch data, modify data, and store data from the legacy data base. Using these commands, data can be copied from the legacy data base into the legacy data base management system, from which it can be operated upon using all of the tools of the legacy data base management system. Following modification, the data can be recopied back into the legacy data base.