Apr
7
2009
The Network – Foundation Of The Internet
Author: mprokesAlpha Edition!, e-mail spelling/grammer/topic suggestions to mattprokes@gmail.com
The Professional Developer Series
Volume 2, Web Development
Chapter 1.2 History Of Web Development
Page: #5
Web Technology and Web Applications are just one of the ideas that has sprung into the present recently; the internet (in its current incarnation), was not thought possible fifteen years ago. In fact fifteen years ago most companies’ idea of the future was placing simple text on a document that ended with the letters .html with never a thought that the document could mean more, and do more then just communicating the ideas of the organization
Many organizations still feel that way today, that is slowly but surely changing as the google’s, facebook’s, twitter’s and yahoo’s of the world shape the future path of technology and information to be a more distributed and connected then ever before possible. The interesting part is that the technology landscape has shifted so much over the past few years; companies are looking to deliver applications that they develop through the internet, allowing instant updates for clients of that technology.
Computing is more and more remotely distributed through the delivery of web-applications these days, and the ways in which a computer interacts with the world has significantly changed since 1998. Most technology companies of the future will exist in an environment where data and data services are paramount to their core business, where communication and collaboration are paramount for survival. How did we get here though? Many of the possibilities that exist only as recent as a couple years ago are what computer scientists have dreamed about for the past 40-50 (see project xanadu). So before we get going, lets first take a step back in time and talk about the history of web technologies.
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