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Thanx,
Marsh
where is the internet headed?
To the limits of human imagination.
In terms of communication and dissemination of information the Gutenberg Press has got nothing on the WWW.
Do anyone here notice any trends?
Permanent evolution.
Basically what does everyone think the future of the net will be (and I am not talking about the Internet2)?
Likely it will simultaneously supercede books, newspapers, magazines, telephone, television, radio, cinema, video rental shops, banking, commerce, networking...
but hopefully only augment rather than replace social interaction.
Also, if you were to build a new site today, what type of site would you build?
The one I'm still building. I started the damn thing in April 1997... I had meant to get it finished by about Summer 1998. Little did I know...
Your links gave me the first good laugh today. Thanks.
Markup must not be embedded.
Roll on the day! Thanks for the link [ted.hyperland.com], patoruzu
And ronin, the internet is not just the WWW. The WWW will be superceded, just like hot metal presses were :)
And ronin, the internet is not just the WWW.
No, indeed not. Though it took me until November 1994 before I understood the difference. >;->
On which note, where is gopher now? Is it still around?
where is gopher now? Is it still around?
Gopher fell off the map when they tried to start charging licensing fees for it's use:
[fact-index.com...]
There are still plenty of gopher servers, ex:
gopher://seanm.ca/
(Above link will only work in Gopher enabled browsers, ie: Mozilla - IE dropped support for the protocol, instead of fixing it's flawed implementation.)
where is the internet headed?To the limits of human imagination.
In terms of communication and dissemination of information the Gutenberg Press has got nothing on the WWW.
As was my confusion between the Gutenberg press and hot metal presses. Hot metal was, I think, a much later innnovation.
;)
But this is drifting off-topic. I'd like to know other people's ideas about the future of the internet, including the WWW. What, for example, do other people think about getting rid of mark-up. A good idea, IMHO. That's why I like CSS. But we aren't going to see it disappear for a while, methinks.
Markup must not be embedded.
...but at least it might prevent horizontal scrolling ;)
Anywhere it wants to, I imagine.... at this point in time, its retained impulsion would tend to make it an irresistible force; whether there's an immovable object to stop it is another question altogether.
That might be easier than trying to predict it.
This is the official Middle of the Internet as determined by the U.S. Cartographic survey 1995.MM-hmm...
