The History of the Future--Internet

Danette True http://www.danettetrue.com

June 2011

A brief history of the internet.How we arrived at web 2.0

in the beginning…

700 bc Homing pigeons used to carry messages in ancient Greece…wireless is born.

1536 The @ symbol is first used by Florentine merchant Francesco Lapi. 1837 William F Cooke

and Charles Wheatstone install the first railway telegraph system.

1861 Pony Express replacedby telegraph.1937 Work begins on the first

digital computer.1951 Manchester University takes delivery of the first commercial computer.1956 IBM releases

Fortranthe first computer

language.

1876 Alexander Graham Bell transmits first words electronically ‘come here Mr. Watson I need you’--he had just spilled acid in his lab. 1958 First data transmitted

via phone network.1962 First computer game ‘Space Wars’ finished--the joystick would be created later that year.

1963 mouse created. 1965 Gordon Moore declares computer power will double every 18 months: Moore’s law still holds today.

1969 First 2 computers connected via ARPANET.

1976 The Queen is the first head of state to send an email.1978 First unsolicited junk mail is sent.

1982 tcp/ip protocol introduced.

1972 First email is sent.1973 ARPANET joins first computers internationally.

1980s Virtual Reality

“Science Fiction Doesn't Predict the Future, It Shapes It“

Wargames - 1983

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke–way back in 1968 he wrote about the iPad; he called it the Newspad.

Ralph 124C 41+ by Hugo Gernsback–way back in 1911 he wrote about video chat. Skype was founded in 2003 and purchased by Microsoft in 2011.

Countless others like the moon landing, automatic doors, VR games, test tube babies, submarines, CCTV, etc.

mosaic browser

firefoxbrowser

bbc

MSNmessenger

wikipedia

skype

xml

asp

rssipod

ADSL

facebook

Tech

nolo

gyA

pplic

atio

nsD

ate 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 0889

Site

sC

once

pts

podcast

dialupusergroups

collaborationmash ups

driven by education/research sectordriven by individual

driven by business?

social networkingcommunity

dynamic contentstatic contentinternet

newsgroups shared content

ajax

napster

MP3 standard

blogging

wikiw3cquicktime

first macro virus

google

million th domain name registered

internet wormreleased

irc chat

perl

www introduced

ppp

netscapebrowser

virtual bank

2 million3 million

10 million

apache

aol

hotmail Linkedin

amazon

yahoo

livesearch

safaribrowser

flockbrowser

flickrclusty

youtube

AOLmessenger

friends reunited

.net

http

the last 20 years…

Itunes store

css

myspace

twitter

pdf

flash

javascript

2009 Virtual Reality

current trends…

•Increasing use of open source code and shared data.•Increasing availability of internet. through use of mobility devices, phones, pda’s, wifi etc.

•Increasing speed of internet connection. both at home, in business and via mobile technology.

•Increasing use of off-site storage / data centres.•Increased popularity of web based applications/services•Increased use of video services / streamed video.•Increase in popularity of virtualization.especially for providing virtual ad, dns, dhcp servers etc

•Increasingly technology/internet aware customers, users and employees.•Increase numbers of internet users, social networks, websites and user generated content.

Touch Interfaces Augmented Reality Hyper connectivity Overload of

Information Faster Internet VoIP & IPTV Distributed Systems Data Portability Mobile Apps

1956 - 2002

More Integration Smarter Smart Homes IPV6 – Everything will have an IP address Hyper realistic gaming More immersive entertainment More social networks/collaboration

spaces More cloud platforms New input/control methods ala Minority

Report

predictions on future direction…

•Data portabilityMerging data within various social networks and on-off line apps so that you don’t have to duplicate and synchronize your data across applications or services.

•Integration of pay per click web apps & internet servicesThe ability to edit photos from your corporate flickr account with an online version of Photoshop (paid for per user per month), and put the images straight into a campaign marketing tool to send to your Google mailing list, tracking your newsletter in real time (on a pay click basis).

•Predictive search enginesThe ability of search engines to predict what information you will look for next based on the searches that you are currently performing or content of watched news feeds.

•Authoritative tagging levels for user generated contentThe ability of peer groups and industry experts to rate content of blogs and user provided content to give some degree of data credibility.

go make your own history!

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<content sources>much of the content of this presentation came from online communities and shared

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