History and Future of the Internet in 20 slides

History and future of the internet in 20 slides By Clo Willaerts & Denis Balencourt

1895
Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine establish the Repertoire Bibliographique Universel (RBU), an ambitious attempt at developing a master bibliography of the world’s accumulated knowledge.
“ Everything in the universe, and everything of man, would be registered at a distance as it was produced . In this way a moving image of the world will be established, a true mirror of his memory. From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen . In this way, everyone from his armchair will be able to contemplate creation, as a whole or in certain of its parts.”
http:// nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet

1962
J.C.R. Licklider of MIT discusses his “ Galactic Network ” concept in a series of memos
a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site.
The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking
Licklider later teamed up with ARPA
the rest is history…

1992
World-Wide Web released by CERN.
“ cyberspace is the conceptual space where words and human relationships, data and wealth and power are manifested by people using CMC technology;
virtual communities are cultural aggregations that emerge when enough people bump into each other often enough in cyberspace.”
(Howard Rheingold: A Slice of Life in My Virtual Community)
CMC = computer-mediated communication
(1985)

1994
founding of Amazon.com.
“the store that sells everything”
the leading Internet retailer
Over the years, Amazon.com introduced:
one-click shopping
e-mail order verification
automated personalized recommendations & customer reviews – a store that can make suggestions.

1995
Gore Verbinski creates “Frogs”, and advertising for Budweiser
The origin of viral marketing
offered in 1996 as a free download from Budweiser.com, the Bud Frogs Screen Saver was an instant hit
Later: Wazzup!
Parodies, pranks and hoaxes

1997
News for nerds, stuff that matters
a collaborative peer-to-peer publishing of "open source news” -> community-generated content
Reputation management systems : Slashdot's karma; , cfr. Ebay's colored stars
“ the slashdot effect”
http://www.slashdot.org

1999
The Cluetrain Manifesto
http:// www.cluetrain.com /
Markets are conversations and the Internet is a facilitator of one of the grandest, most global of those conversations.
“ Their members communicate in language that is natural, open, honest, direct, funny and often shocking . Whether explaining or complaining, joking or serious, the human voice is unmistakably genuine. It can't be faked .”

2002
The Small World Project is an online experiment to test the idea that two people in the world can be connected via “ six degrees of separation ” http://smallworld.columbia.edu/
“ In an interactive space, content is not king. Contact is.“. Douglas Rushkoff: Social Currency @ thefeature.com
http:// www.friendster.com
Clay Shirky: YASNS (Yet Another Social Network Service.

2004
"Audible Revolution" (Ben Hammersley, The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,,1145689,00.html
Adam Curry iPodder-script
Dave Winer rss-formaat
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting

2005
During 2005 it's estimated that the one-billionth user went online.
Netcraft survey reports there are more than 74 million web sites online, while in 1993 only 130 web sites existed online.
Google releases new services every other day

2006
For the next 5 years Newspapers will lose 10% of audience & Internet gains 10% of audience
Create, share & promote content is made easy for everyone
On top of Blogs, Flickr, YouTube & DailyMotion allow to share video
Social network based on self promotion are success MySpace, Blog platforms, etc.
Mixing & Filtering is the struggle against Info overload
Bubble 2.0 is questioned. Is there more than 55374 users for the new web?

2007
French Presidential election is an info war and blogosphere counts for 55% of final voting decision
Active follow up of bookmarks becomes an email like habit
RSS quietly becomes a mainstream tool
Renowned content mixers & Leaders of community gain a mass audience
Dedicated search tool surpass generic search engines
On Demand is THE commercial argument

2008
Content is most of the time first seen online
Social applications determine US election debate
The internet is not yet seen as the most trusted voting system but the US election is won on the internet with a massive motivation of online communities
Gallileo satellite allows Europe to provide geolocalized service accurately for everything thanks to RFID

2009
Cultural awareness of Online kids is wider than ever. Access to different & diverse content has never been so easy.
Viral news & Social applications question the social gap & the world organization
Political power is in question any time since its power comes from online communities

2010
Surfers : 1.750 billon for 6.8 billions human
World Cup 2010 bring unprecedented focus on Africa and online gap
A human-like digital meme tracker reads news an comment discussion 24 hours a day

2011
The web is 20 years old
Access or Control of the mediators is vital for industry & political groups
Everything is connected, all artifacts can be online, tracked, accessed
Browse the web is also browsing the physical world

2012 - 2015
Virgin offers space trips to view the last Venus Sun Earth conjunction of the century
Voting thru electronic devices is secure
Mobile voting & web voting lead to abstention rate drop
Switch off button forbidden by law
Social application turns into legal social control

2015 - 2019
VR immersion is possible with emotional & physical interaction
Ubiquitous robots are present and control part of our lives, security
Emotion-control devices are developed

2020
In a world with information overload, where all information are available the noise is so heavy that, even when filtered, the “Mundaneum” dream of Paul Otlet looks like a nightmare.
Somewhere a young person who is able to give sense to the whole information get a small group of followers and their message start spreading…
No one knows if they will turn helping us or not…

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