In order to fully understand the meaning of the Internet and the World Wide Web and its origins, evolution and radical changes through the years. We have to comprehend the highly complex meaning of concepts such us hypertext, hypermedia, links, and navigation.
The concept of non-sequential writing was very important to create the framework needed to develop concepts such us: browsing, text links, bookmarks, and the ability to move forward and backwards in this kind of endless virtual book full of “Pages” that the World Wide Web represents today. The Ted Nelson’s terms hypertext and hypermedia from the 60’s and the history of computers’ evolution allowed newer generation trough the years to re-thing and re-create the original concepts in what the internet and World Wide Web is today.
The early 1990s work done at the CERN, the circulation of the proposal for a hypertext-based 'information mesh'(World Wide Web), the creation of protocol for exchanging files across the Internet (hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)) and the hypertext markup language brought nelson’s ideas to a completely new dimension that change the understanding of the world. Starting a new era where the space where people, communicate, socialize and shear ideas could be real or virtual (hyperspace).
I personally thing that we are in the beginning of the understanding of the possibilities of this new media and we have a long way to go to developed the full potential of the WWW.
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I think your closing statements in this entry are really interesting. Throughout my life I have been watching (or sometimes hearing about) the advances in television. We went from no TV, to black and white, to color, to cable and satellite. We have digital television, high definition television, and interactive television like onDemand and dynamic TV guides. We can watch on plasma screens, cell phones, and on flat surfaces anywhere in the world because of digital projects. All these advances are just TV. And we're not even done developing yet! Imagine what the internet and web will become. What advances do you think will be next?
Nice blog and i like the way you share the information with us. In my prospective we are in the beginning of the understanding of this new medium. We take some time to define or develop this properly.
keep up the good work.
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