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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.

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History and future of the internet in 20 slides

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

  2. 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

  3. 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…

  4. 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)

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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.”

  9. 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.

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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?

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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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