by Gene Phifer | March 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
Last week I posted a tribute to Sir Tim Berners-Lee celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Web. This week I’d like to look toward the future and discuss some potential scenarios for the next 20 years. I don’t pretend to have a crystal ball that looks 20 years into the future. Yet I can see [...]
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by Gene Phifer | March 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
On March 13, 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first paper on adding hypertext capabilities to the Internet. At the time, the Internet was used almost exclusively by defense agencies, defense contractors, and higher education institutions. The traffic on the Internet was dominated by SMTP-based e-mail, NNTP-based newsgroups, FTP-based file transfers and TELNET sessions to [...]
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