3. 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 replaced
by telegraph.
1937 Work begins on the first digital
computer.
1951 Manchester University takes
delivery of the first commercial
computer. 1956 IBM releases Fortran
the 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.
7. 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.
8. mosaic
browser
firefox
browser
bbc
MSN
messenger
wikipedia
skype
xml
asp
rss
ipod
ADSL
facebook
TechnologyApplicationsDate
90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 0889
SitesConcepts
podcast
dialup
usergroups
collaboration
mash ups
driven by education/research sector
driven by individual
driven by business?
social networkingcommunity
dynamic contentstatic content
internet
newsgroups shared content
ajax
napster
MP3
standard
blogging
wiki
w3cquicktime
first macro virus
google
million th domain name registered
internet worm
released
irc chat
perl
www
introduced
ppp
netscapeb
rowser
virtual
bank
2 million
3 million
10 million
apache
aol
hotmail Linkedin
amazon
yahoo
livesearch
safari
browser
flock
browser
flickr
clusty
youtube
AOL
messenger
friends reunited
.net
http
the last 20 years…
Itunes store
css
myspace
twitter
pdf
flash
javascript
10. 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.
11. Touch Interfaces
Augmented Reality
Hyper connectivity
Overload of Information
Faster Internet
VoIP & IPTV
Distributed Systems
Data Portability
Mobile Apps
1956 - 2002
12. 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
13. predictions on future direction…
•Data portability
Merging 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 services
The 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 engines
The 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 content
The ability of peer groups and industry experts to rate content of blogs and user
provided content to give some degree of data credibility.
16. <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/
<Edited by>
danette true www.danettetrue.wordpress.com
<content sources>
much of the content of this presentation came from online communities and shared content
http://www.anderbergfamily.net/ant/history
http://en.wikipedia.org
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