1989-2010The history of the webPast, present & futureDr Mirek Sopek – MakoLab SA
The planThe fundamental difference between The Internet and The Web
The Web creator
The history of the Web
The dangers of the Web
The future of the Web2
What is the difference between Internet and the Web?The Web is the HIGHER level of the netThe Web is implemented via application layer protocol: HTTPThe content representation language is  HTMLHYPERLINK is the most important building block of the Web”:<a href=”http://purl.org/net/sopek”>My Blog</a>The addressing system, DNS  is of key importance to the Web— it alone provides URL/URI addresses (locators & identifiers)Servers and browser are created using very sophisticated softwareAccording to its creators intentions, Web is completely distributed and decentralized3
The creator of the WebSir TimBerners LeeWarsaw Lecture – X, 2010: http://url.eu/tbl4
History of the WebProceedingtechnologies:VannevarBush’s: MEMEX (As We May Think — 1945)GML/SGML – 1960 — 1986Project  Xanadu — 1960-1981Internet —TCP/IP Network (1973-1974)Enquire — TimBerners-Lee 1980 (CERN)The birth of Web:  TimBerners-Lee: „Information Management: A Proposal” March 1989, CERNThe first Web Server — HTTPD: http://info.cern.ch – December 1990The Web was borninacademic environment5
The birth of Web:  Tim Berners-Lee: „Information Management: A Proposal” March 1989, CERNThe Web was borninacademic environment6
History of the WebAugust 6, 1990: The Debiut of the first public WWW server („The WorldWideWeb (WWW) projectaims to allowlinks to be made to anyinformationanywhere”) – announced on alt.hypertext.newsgroupApril 1992 — First Browsers(in UNIX/xWindows systems): graphical: Erwise/ViolaWWW, textbased: LynxFebruary 1993 —Mosaic (Unix) browserJune 1993 — Cello (Windows) browserApril 1994 — NetscapeNavigatorThe Web was borninacademic environment7
History of the WebMay 1994 – The first International WWW  conference (organised by Roberta Cailliau) w CERNSeptember 1994 — Berners-Leecreates WWW consortium at MIT (USA) 1995-1998 – the first wave of webcommertialization (Amazon.com , ebay – 1995;  „The Big Online Holiday Extravaganza” – 1,2 mld $ December 1998)1996 – Microsoft finally „discovers” Web – the war of browsers (won by MS  1999 and lostinlastyears)1999 –  Napstercreated1991-2001 — Dotcoms – Stock Market BubblesThe pace of web development isfasterthan of anyother medium8
History of the WebSearchengine & catalogues: Yahoo – 1995Excite — 1995Google  — 1998MSN Search — 1998, Live Search — 2006, Bing — 2009March 2000 — Google startssellingadds2003 — Google dominatessearchengine marketThe word„google” becomestheverb.9

History of The Web

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    1989-2010The history ofthe webPast, present & futureDr Mirek Sopek – MakoLab SA
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    The planThe fundamentaldifference between The Internet and The Web
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    What is thedifference between Internet and the Web?The Web is the HIGHER level of the netThe Web is implemented via application layer protocol: HTTPThe content representation language is HTMLHYPERLINK is the most important building block of the Web”:<a href=”http://purl.org/net/sopek”>My Blog</a>The addressing system, DNS is of key importance to the Web— it alone provides URL/URI addresses (locators & identifiers)Servers and browser are created using very sophisticated softwareAccording to its creators intentions, Web is completely distributed and decentralized3
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    The creator ofthe WebSir TimBerners LeeWarsaw Lecture – X, 2010: http://url.eu/tbl4
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    History of theWebProceedingtechnologies:VannevarBush’s: MEMEX (As We May Think — 1945)GML/SGML – 1960 — 1986Project Xanadu — 1960-1981Internet —TCP/IP Network (1973-1974)Enquire — TimBerners-Lee 1980 (CERN)The birth of Web: TimBerners-Lee: „Information Management: A Proposal” March 1989, CERNThe first Web Server — HTTPD: http://info.cern.ch – December 1990The Web was borninacademic environment5
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    The birth ofWeb: Tim Berners-Lee: „Information Management: A Proposal” March 1989, CERNThe Web was borninacademic environment6
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    History of theWebAugust 6, 1990: The Debiut of the first public WWW server („The WorldWideWeb (WWW) projectaims to allowlinks to be made to anyinformationanywhere”) – announced on alt.hypertext.newsgroupApril 1992 — First Browsers(in UNIX/xWindows systems): graphical: Erwise/ViolaWWW, textbased: LynxFebruary 1993 —Mosaic (Unix) browserJune 1993 — Cello (Windows) browserApril 1994 — NetscapeNavigatorThe Web was borninacademic environment7
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    History of theWebMay 1994 – The first International WWW conference (organised by Roberta Cailliau) w CERNSeptember 1994 — Berners-Leecreates WWW consortium at MIT (USA) 1995-1998 – the first wave of webcommertialization (Amazon.com , ebay – 1995; „The Big Online Holiday Extravaganza” – 1,2 mld $ December 1998)1996 – Microsoft finally „discovers” Web – the war of browsers (won by MS 1999 and lostinlastyears)1999 – Napstercreated1991-2001 — Dotcoms – Stock Market BubblesThe pace of web development isfasterthan of anyother medium8
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    History of theWebSearchengine & catalogues: Yahoo – 1995Excite — 1995Google — 1998MSN Search — 1998, Live Search — 2006, Bing — 2009March 2000 — Google startssellingadds2003 — Google dominatessearchengine marketThe word„google” becomestheverb.9
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    History of theWebThe birth of Web 2.0: 2004 — the first Web 2.0 conference - „Web as Platform” O’ReillyMedia2002-2009: The technologicalprogress — AJAX, AdobeFlex, XML, DOM, Web APIs, Mashups etc.Concepts: Search, Links (eco-system), Authoring(wiki, blogs), Tags(tag clouds, folksonomies), Extensions (PDFs, Flash, SilverLight(, Signals (RSS)SocialMedia„Social” humanknowledge – from 2001 – Wikipedia, today~16 mln articlesTimBerners Lee talked about R/W Web since the beginning.10
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    SocialMediaSocialMediais the mostimportantemanation of Web 2.0 Blogs (Blogger, TypePad, WordPress, LiveJornal etc) 2001 till todayMicrobloggs — Twitter (2006), Jaiku, Tumblr, Google Buzz - Social Networks — FaceBook (2004), MySpace, LinkedIn, Nasza KlasaEvents: Meetup, UpcomingSocialBookmarking: Delicious, Digg, RedditMultimedia: Flickr, YouTube …TimBerners Lee talked about R/W Web since the beginning.11
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    FutureWeb Full ofMeaning — Semantic Web — Web 3.0 — the birth 1999Linked Data Initiative — 2005Network decentralization????http://www.slideshare.net/sjbrinker/web-30-data-marketing?from=ss_embedDo we have crystal ball ?12
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    Thank you foryour attentionDr Mirek Sopek
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