1. May 12, 2014
University of Milano Bicocca
URBEUR-QUASI PhD Programme
The evolution of the
Web
Part I: The story
Roberto Polillo
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communications
University of Milano Bicocca
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2. Our goal: to discuss the evolution of the Web
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Part I (today): The story
A summary of the milestones / paradigms of
the evolution of the Web: 1990-today
Part II (next Monday): The driving forces
A summary of market mechanisms that drive
the growth of the Web online services
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"You cannot step into the same river twice"
"Change alone is unchanging"
Heraclitus
4. The evolution of the Web
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From the first Web site (1991), the Web is
continuously growing and changing its nature
In parallel, telephony is drastically changed
(fixed → mobile)
Drivers of this evolution: tecnology, market,
people behaviour
5. Four Internet paradigms
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1995+
Corporate sites
Web portals
Search engines
E-commerce
Web as an interface
….
HYPERTEXT,
eCOMMERCE
2005+
Blogs
Social networks
UGC
Cooperative
creation
Sharing
Reusable contents
…
SOCIAL MEDIA
1985
+
E-mail
File transfer
Newsgroups
….
COMMUNICATION
NETWORK
6. 2015+
MOBILE WEB
Mobile devices
Cloud computing
Geolocalzation
Camera phone
Augmented reality
Electronic wallet
Four Internet paradigms
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Mobile devices
Desktop + laptop
Worldwide installed base
10. Internet host growth (World)
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Source: Internet Systems Consortium, from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage
11. Internet users growth (World)
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Source: ITU, Measuring the Information Society 2013
(onlinte)
12. Growth of .it domains
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13 thousands
Source:
http://gandalf.it/dati
13. Internet traffic growth (World)
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http://gizmodo.com/5614841/
web
video
p2p
16. Web 1.0
MS Explorer
Amazon
eBay
IPO Netscape
1990 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2000 2001
2002
First web site
at
CERN
W3C
Netscape Navigator
Yahoo
Mosaic
Google
Mozilla
Napster
Paypal
Max
NASDAQ
9/11
Min
NASDAQ
Nasdaq Composite Index
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17. Web 1.0: main characteristics
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Site content produced by site publisher
Hierarchical organization and navigation thru menu
Single user ↔ web site interaction
Interaction with data bases
"Closed" services (“get the user and keep her within
site”)
19. Web 1.0 Web sites
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Corporate Web sites
Portals and search engines
eCommerce
[Enterprise portals]
20. Corporate Web sites
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Target: customers, investors, press, general
public
Who & where we are, what we do, our
products / services, [online sales]
21. Portals
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Access to set of online resources
Thematic "channels"
General portals vs "vortals"
Personalization (“myPortal”)
Very large developments in late '90s
www.yahoo.com
from 1994, always among the first 5 more visited sites
22. Short history of Yahoo!
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1996: http://web.archive.org/web/19961022175643/http://www10.yahoo.com/
1999: http://web.archive.org/web/19990208021636/http://www12.yahoo.com/
2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20011108000033/http://www.yahoo.com/
2003 http://web.archive.org/web/20031211113526/http://www.yahoo.com/
2005 http://web.archive.org/web/20051220154406/http://www.yahoo.com/?
2007: http://web.archive.org/web/20071229022936/http://www.yahoo.com/
2010: http://web.archive.org/web/20101016230535/http://www.yahoo.com/
Today: www.yahoo.com
http://www.archive.org/ (from 1996)
24. Enterprise portals
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Internal to organization:
Document management
Internal communication
Internal procedures and forms
Front-end to corporate information systems
Private corporate networks slowly adopt Internet
protocols ("intranet")
25. E-commerce: main success stories
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http://www.amazon.com from 1995
Current size:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=amazon.com
http://www.ebay.com from 1995
Current size:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=ebay.com
27. IPO (Initial Public Offering) frenzy
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dot.com frenzy started by Netscape IPO (Aug 9, 1995)
Founded 18 months earlier
16 M$ revenues, no profit
Market cap at IPO: 1 B$ (!)
Large venture capital, to bring startups to IPO
Many irrealistic business models
NASDAQ bubble, then fall (2000-2001)
Silicon Valley stops completely
28. The "dot.com bubble”
MS Explorer
Amazon
eBay
IPO Netscape
1990 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2000 2001
2002
First web
site at
CERN
W3C
Netscape Navigator
Yahoo
Mosaic
Google
Mozilla
Napster
Paypal
Max
NASDAQ
9/11
Min
NASDAQ
Nasdaq Composite Index
March 10
2000: index at
5132
March 10
2000: index at
5132
Oct 9 2002:
index at 1114
Oct 9 2002:
index at 1114
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31. Web 2.0: birth of a name
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First O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 Conference (Oct 2004)
The Internet community realizes that the Web is changed…
32. Web 2.0 key aspects
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Social media:
The user is the leading actor
User interaction throu the Web: one-to-many (blog), many-to-many
(social media)
Services to host User Generated Content (UGC), to be shared with other
users
Collective creation
User rating in e-commerce
"Market are conversations" (Cluetrain manifesto, 1999-2000)
The Web as a computing platform:
Online services, virtualization
Perpetuale beta
Component and service mashups
Rich Internet Applications (RIA) technologies
33. Web 2.0
2000 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
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Twitter,
Slideshare,
Scribd
Google
DocsYouTube
,
Joomla,
NingFlickr,
Facebook
Skype
WordPress
Blogger
LinkedIn iPhone
Groupon
Android,
Dropbox
Foursquar
e
WhatsApp
iPad,
Pinterest
Instagram
Google+
Wikipedi
a
(In red start of mobile
Web)
Internet
traffic
video
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38. Fasi della storia del Web
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SMS
2 G
Nokia
5110
GSM (candybar)
SMS, watch, sveglia,
rubrica, calcolatrice,
rubrica, giochi, suonerie
MMS
WAP
2.5 G
Motorola
V3 RAZR
"Feature phone"
GPRS (candybar,
clamshell) +
MMS,,photocamera,
email, (Internet)
Touch phone
iPhone
+ multitouch,
sensors, GPS,
app, …
3 G
Blackberry
"Smartphone"
+ alphanumeric kb,
PDA, video, GPS,
radio, MP3, OS, …TELEFONIA
MOBILE
TIM,
Omnitel
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IPO
YouTube
40. IP telephony
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Skype
Internet based video-telephony, free
Starting 2003, acquired by eBay in 2005, then by
Microsoft in 2011 (8,5 B$)
2012: 700 ml accounts; one third of all international
calls pass through Skype
Jan 2013: 50 ml concurrent users
WhatsApp
Free SMS via IP
Started in 2009, acquired by Facebook in 2014 (19
B$)
41. The "mobile miracle"
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ITU, Measuring the Information Society
2012
Mobile cellular subscriptions
6 years gap
ITU, Measuring the Information Society
2013
Internet users
90% of world
population has
access to a cellphone
45. Android
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Linux based mobile OS
Initially developed by Android Inc., acquired by Google
in 2005
Open-source
First android phone: end 2008
Today the largest market share for mobile OS
46. Mobile OS market share
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Source: StatCounter
51. "Mobile" may be misleading…
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Emphasis is not on the "moveability"
Emphasis is on the fact that we always bring
them with us
Small, portable, personal, context-aware, multi-
function devices…
… which can also be used to make a phone call
52. A complete paradigm change
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Access
from fixed
location
Ubiquitous,
contextualizedl
access
Device is geo-localized, has
eyes, hears, voice, knows its
user and is connected to a
global computing platform
53. Devices change our behaviours
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Monthly pro-capite use of cellphones in
USA: voice vs SMS (Nielsen)
54. Monthly pro-capite use of cellphones: voice vs
SMS by age in USA
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Q2 2008, Nielsen
55. Camera phone
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Started circa 2002, with MMS services
Now editing (photo and video) and immediate
uploading / sharing on the net
>250 ml photos uploaded daily to Facebook
Photo & videa cameras change their nature
62. But we cannot do everything with a
small, portable device…
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Mobile
and
cloud
com
puting
are
strongly
related
CLOUD
Tks Lara Ciccarelli per i disegni
65. Smartphone voice assistant
Apple Siri: in iPhone 4S ott 2011, in iPad in set 2012
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtwVQhEXCcc
Google Voice Search/Google now: ottobre 2012,
orientato al search
Microsoft Cortana: 2014
http://bgr.com/2014/04/14/cortana-vs-siri-vs-google-now
Il futuro anche nei sistemi di guida di autoveicoli
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