a geeks history of the internet.How we arrived at web 2.0

in the beginning…

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

1536 the @ symbol is first used by florentine merchant tran cesco 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 take delivery of the first commercial computer.1956 Ibm release

fortranthe first computer

language.

1876 alexander graham bell transmits first words electronically ‘come here mr watson I need you’ - he had just spilt some

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

month - moores 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 .

mosaic browser

firefoxbrowser

bbc

MSNmessenger

wikipedia

skype

xml

asp

rssipod

ADSL

facebook

Tec

hnol

ogy

App

lica

tions

Dat

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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 content

internetnewsgroups 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

flickr

clusty

youtube

AOLmessenger

friends reunited

.net

http

the last 20 years…

Itunes store

css

myspace

twitter

pdf

flash

javascript

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.

predictions on future direction…

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

•Integration of pay per click web aps & 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 you 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.

•Authorative 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.

<image sources>all of the images in this presentation came from flickr

• cover : http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannyman/323698320/• superhighway : http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandejackson/2236226854/

<contributions>Thanks to the north east it managers network, codeworks and twict.

Special Thanks to graham jordan, james burke, gareth rushgrove and peter kerr.

<Produced by>david coxon,www.davidcoxon.com

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

content

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