he set to work to resolve the problems associated with diverse communities of scientists sharing data between themselves
By 1989, the Internet was well established
he World Wide Web came into being.
To view retrieved documents he wrote a browser
and to store and transmit them, the first web server.
'WorldWideWeb'
Nexus
Tim Berners-Lee submitted a paper to CERN's board for evaluation, 'Information Management: A Proposal', wherein he detailed and encouraged the adoption of hypertext as the means to manage and collate the vast sum of information
distribute web server and browser software on the Internet.
The browser
tied to a specific make of computer,
Soon browsers for different platforms started appearing,
Mosaic took off in popularity to such an extent that it made front page of the New York Times' technical section in late 1993,
CompuServe, AOL and Prodigy begin offering dial-up internet access
the Internet has now blossomed into a vehicle of expression
and research for the common person with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of new pages being added to the World Wide Web every day
Vannevar Bush
a machine called a 'memex' might enhance human memory by the storage
1945 essay, 'As We May Think'
ar less critical
Bush's contribution
Bush galvanised research into technology as the key determinant in winning the Second World War
A few years after the war the National Science Foundation (NSF) was setup
in 1958
the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was created
employed a psychologist by the name of Joseph Licklider
in 1962
the development of the modern PC
built upon Bush's contributions
esponsible for penning 'Man Computer Symbiosis'
computer networking
and companies
he initiated research contracts with leading computer institutions
ay down the foundations of the first networked computing group.
he setup a research laboratory
Douglas Engelbart
to examine the human interface and storage and retrieval systems
the Augmentation Research Center
NLS (oNLine System
ARPA funding
hypertext
the developer of the first mouse or pointing device
the hardware giants were consolidating their computing initiatives
conceiving the use of packets, small chunks of a message which could be reconstituted at destination, upon which current internet transmission and reception is based
Paul Baran
Cold War technology
the idea of distributed networks comprising numerous interconnected nodes
smartphones based on Google's Android operating system.
Google's new technology mimics some of the key features of popular social networking services like Twitter and Facebook
176.5 million unique visitors in December
the large pool of Gmail users.
There's always been a giant social network underneath Gmail,"
Todd Jackson
Gmail is the third most popular web-based email in the world
Forrester Research social media analyst Augie Ray
flag as viewable to everyone
utomatically indexed by Google's search engine
Google hopes to jumpstart its social networking push
users can also keep messages private by sharing only with customized groups of friends and colleagues.
users can easily share content from various Google online properties like photo-sharing service Picasa and video site YouTube.
Content from certain third-party services such as Twitter can also be shared
Buzz is not currently able to display messages that originated on Facebook
"The fact that Gmail did not connect and allow broadcasts out to Twitter and Facebook could be a real challenge to them
be available within Google's recently launched real-time search results.
the Orkut social network in 2004
Google has tried to ride the social networking wave before
ailed to attract as many users as social giants like Facebook and MySpace in the United States.
Google is following in the footsteps of Yahoo
has seen lackluster results according to analysts.
Google appears to be putting a heavy emphasis on mobile and location-based capabilities
a special mobile application for Buzz that will run on smartphones based on Google's Android software, Windows Mobile and the Symbian operating system.
it is like a million superhighways with no lines painted on the road
a snake pit of computers attaching to modems attaching to phone lines, or cable, or satellites, or cell networks, attaching to more computers, servers, routers and modems and so on, and so on
“Why is she doing that?” they whisper. “Why doesn’t she just Google it?”
the technological shifts in communication we’re living with are unprecedented
our technological revolution is the big social revolution that we live with.
the Never-Betters, the Better-Nevers, and the Ever-Wasers
the world
the brink of a new utopia
Better-Nevers
better off if the whole thing had never happened
uperior
is coming to an end
Never-Betters
s taking its place
Ever-Wasers
new way of organizing data and connecting users is always thrilling to some and chilling to others
is exactly what makes it a modern moment.
N.Y.U. professor Clay Shirk
something a little nervous going on underneath.
e are on the crest of an ever-surging wave of democratized information
Gutenberg printing press produced the Reformation, which produced the Scientific Revolution, which produced the Enlightenment, which produced the Internet,
he new connective technology
he Wired version of Whig history
is bound to make for more freedom
“Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?,”
“We see all around us transformations in the making that will rival or exceed the printing revolution”
“Printing ignited the previously wasted intellectual potential of huge segments of the population. . . . Freedom of thought and speech—where they exist—were unforeseen offspring of the printing press.”
Never-Betterism has its excitements,
emerged at the end of the printing-press era
t wasn’t by some technological logic but because of parallel inventions,
O tem, kako je tehnologija prišla v nas, kako jo bodo verjetno občutile mlajše generacije in kako je tehnologija vedno obstajala, le zavedali se je niso.