Back to the Future...of the Internet/WWW

So last night we had two articles to read, the first, an article that took us through a time warp/travel of the start of the Internet and the WWW (Kazmierski), next up was an article trying to convince us that the Web is dead, and that we are moving into a post-web era.

Starting of with Kazmierski's article, throughout the article, he kindly defines all of the words associated with the internet that we claim we knew..but really maybe never knew. Terms such as hyptertext, HTTP, HTML, source, network, IP, hosts, and it goes on. He also gives us the interesting history of the WWW...

(here's my mini timeline)

1. The Ramayana early example of hypertext
2. The Talmud early example of hypertext, through print
3. Denis Diderot first encyclopedia, idea of storing as much info. in a set of volumes
4. Post WWI explosion of info., how to organize it all? then came..
5. Herbert George Wells concept of a network and a "world brain"
6. Vannevar Bush the oh-so-awesome MEMEX
7. The Memex II!
(At this point I love the connections in terminology and concept for what we use today to terms from the past. Some we've already dicussed in class like scroll and page, but there's also the concept of the use of color to distinguish old trails from new trails)
8. Xanadu and Ted Nelson the storage of lit. works and public and private info., which basically turned into the structure of the Charter cable we have today in our Internet systems
9. ARPAnet thank you government for taking the first step
10. Englebart that dandy little mouse
11. Taylor and Roberts "Network Working Group" and IMP
12.....
13. Tim Berners-Lee Netscape

okay enough of that, you get the point, Kazmierski gave us the complete low-down of how all of this got started. Muy interesante.

Next up, which I will only touch on is joint article by Anderson and Wolf, where they are, as I said earlier, attempting to convince us that the web is dead, and that we are transferring over to only the use of apps. Now, this time last year, I could agree with them, I had just gotten my iPad and was in complete love with the use of apps, but a year later, and I can say that I'm not so sure we are converting into a post-Web era. Yes, I'm sure we all love our apps, but there's no way we could only get around on them alone. But as times change, and as our technology continues to advance, who knows what will come of the use of the Web...

(Correct me if I'm wrong, but when we use apps we can only be on that app..and not so easily as a click of a button be using another one- unlike tabs in our browsers- where we can bounce around all over the place.New tabs may just save the web.)