High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991: the "Gore Bill"; the push from government was crucial in getting the Internet out of its academic ghetto. Among the bill's provisions was a piece of policy best known by its popular name: the "information superhighway." But rather than putting shovels in the ground to build it, government policymakers catalyzed private companies to do it for them, by funding the construction of "on-ramps."
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson: metaverseSF novel; concept of a future internet, made up of persistent, shared, 3D virtual spaces linked into a perceived virtual universe
"I see little commercial potential for the Internet for the next 10 years." ~Bill Gatesmyth?
1995: Hosts: ~6,642,000
"disruptive innovation"an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technolog; term introduced as 'disruptive technology' by Clayton M. Christensen, article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave", later changed to "disruptive innovation" in The Innovator's Dilemma; The Innovator's Solution since the innovation is usually not a function of technology itself but rather of its changing application; see also: "enabling technology" which leads to radical change in the capabilities of a user or culture; see also: diffusion of innovations; hype cycle
"Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." ~Rich Cook
"A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness." ~Alfred Korzybski
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." ~Lewis Carroll
"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else." ~Yogi Berra
WebTV: used TV for consumer web access; then, MSN TV; now, defunct
"digital divide"term used by Bill Clinton in 2000: "an economic inequality between groups, broadly construed, in terms of access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies"; some factors:
geography: rural vs. urban; US vs. world
speed, cost of connection
wired vs. wireless
poverty, literacy, disability, gender, race, class
competition vs. monopolies
government policies
"All of us live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon." ~Konrad Adenauer
"Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world." ~Jimmy Carter
"Will the distance between 'have nets' and 'have nots' increase?" ~S. Weyer, 1988
Who?s Not Online and WhyPew Research Center; 15% = 38 million; most over 50 (esp. 65); less educated; less affluent; 'broadband' includes satellite, DSL; not smartphones; 9/25/2013
spam bloga blog which the author uses to promote affiliated websites, to increase the search engine rankings of associated sites or to simply sell links/ads
"The Internet is a shallow and unreliable electronic repository of dirty pictures, inaccurate rumours, bad spelling and worse grammar, inhabited largely by people with no demonstrable social skills." ~Chronicle of Higher Education
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." ~Samuel Johnson, 1775
"Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant." ~Mitchell Kapor
"[T]he index of a search engine can be thought of as analogous to the stars in [the] sky. What we see has never existed, as the light has traveled different distances to reach our eye. Similarly, Web pages referenced in an index were also explored at different dates and they may not exist any more." ~Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, 1999
"Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly." ~Roger Ebert
"The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor." ~John Allen Paulos
"Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices." ~Nicholas D. Kristof, 2009
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." ~Pablo Picasso
"We have compiled a list of nine proofs which definitively prove Google is the closest thing to a "god" human beings have ever directly experienced." ~The Church of Google: Omniscient; Omnipresent; Answers Prayers; Immortal; Infinite; Remembers All; Omnibenevolent; Prevalence; Evidence
egosurfing(also Googling yourself, vanity searching, egosearching, egogoogling, autogoogling, self-googling) is the practice of searching for one's own name, pseudonym, or screen name on a popular search engine in order to review the results
'Google bomb': creating large numbers of links, that cause a web page to have a high ranking for searches on unrelated or off topic keyword phrases, often for comical or satirical purposes; e.g., "more evil than Satan himself" (Microsoft), "miserable failure" (G. W. Bush); spamdexing
Why Does Google Still Reward Content Scraping?How a copied-and-pasted excerpt of a story can still outrank an 8,000-word original. And why publishers aren't the ones to blame; 1/24/2013
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) 2128 (~3.4?1038) addresses; spec. published; this amounts to approximately 5?1028 addresses for each of the 6.8 billion people alive in 2010. While these numbers are impressive, it was not the intent of the designers of the IPv6 address space to assure geographical saturation with usable addresses. Rather, the longer addresses simplify allocation of addresses, enable efficient route aggregation, and implementation of special addressing features.; What is an IP address?; How Network Address Translation Works (NAT); IPv4 Vs IPv6 video Tutorial
Issues:
more users worldwide and more computers & (mobile) devices/users; Internet of Things
1999: Web 3.0: personalization and Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee: "I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web ? the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ?Semantic Web?, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The ?intelligent agents? people have touted for ages will finally materialize."
"There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true." ~Robert Wilensky
Urban Dictionarycollaborative dictionary with > 7 million entries
Internet Spring Cleaning. DO NOT CONNECT TO THE INTERNET FROM MARCH 31st 23:59 pm (GMT) UNTIL 12:01am (GMT) APRIL 1st.
The Decades That Invented the Future: Part 10: 1990sSony Playstation; GPS-Guided Munitions; Linux; MP3 Player; RQ-1 Predator Drone; Oklahoma City Bombing; Photoshop; The Internet (web); Dark Energy; Women's Soccer; Web Design; venture capitalist (John Doerr); 1/25/2013
1991: Hosts: ~617,000
Amazon: online shopping; How Amazon Works
Altavista search engine; How Internet Search Engines Work; AltaVista. What's That? 7/1/2013
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) 2128 (~3.4?1038) addresses; spec. published; this amounts to approximately 5?1028 addresses for each of the 6.8 billion people alive in 2010. While these numbers are impressive, it was not the intent of the designers of the IPv6 address space to assure geographical saturation with usable addresses. Rather, the longer addresses simplify allocation of addresses, enable efficient route aggregation, and implementation of special addressing features.; What is an IP address?; How Network Address Translation Works (NAT); IPv4 Vs IPv6 video Tutorial