20 years of the Internet in South Africa

1991 Telkom

First SA ping

Oceanus sinks

Nintendo console

www

Gulf War

1992 Interception and Monitoring Act

co.za

Linux

“Surfing”

Bosnia

CODESA

1993 Vodacom & MTN

Internet Africa

Adobe PDF

Mosaic

Rwanda

Chris Hani killed

1994SAT-2

JPEG

Apache

Channel Tunnel

New South Africa

1995 Green Paper

Telkom SAIX

Windows 95

amazon.com

Barings Bank

Rugby World Cup champions

1996 Telecoms Act

ISPA

DVD player

AltaVista

Dolly the Sheep

African Nations Cup champions

1997 SATRA

“Blue Paper”

PalmPilot

Hong Kong to China

Truth and Reconciliation Commission

1998ISOC-ZA

iMacGoogle

Belfast Agreement

Planet Hollywood bomb

1999Mark

Shuttleworth

Napster

Akamai

Euro adopted

Thabo Mbeki president

2000TENET

Y2K

Dot com bubble

Bush vs Gore

Mozambique floods

2001

Telecoms Act amended

SAT-3

iPod

Wikipedia

9/11

2002 ECT Act

ADSL

Mac OS XUS invades Afghanistan

Solar eclipse

2003

iTunes

Skype

US invades Iraq

Cricket World Cup

2004 Telecoms Big Bang

3G

Ubuntu

Facebook

Indian Ocean tsunami

Equatorial Guinea plot

2005 Neotel

VoIP

Xbox 360

YouTube

Pope John Paul dies

SALT

2006 Electronic Communications Act

Blu-Ray player

Amazon EC2

Human genome published

2007SANReN

iPhone1 billion

Internet users

Kenya riots

Rugby World Cup champions (again)

2008

Altech VANS judgement

Mobile > Fixed

Amazon Kindle

Dropbox

Large hadron collider

Xenophobia

2009SEACOM

3D TV

Interplanetary Internet

Credit Crunch

2010EASSy

iPadGulf oil

spill

FIFA World Cup

2011 Local Loop Unbundling

Fibre broadband

iCloud

2 billion Internet users

Arab Spring

COP-17

The Future...

• The Internet of Things – Much larger than Internet of People

• Mobility – The Personal Internet– Most will access through mobile devices

• The Social Internet– Anonymity may be impossible

• Enterprise ICT will be in the Cloud– Extending across multiple networks

• The Internet will become a lot more content-aware– Good: Content Delivery Networks will make streaming predictable– Bad: Deep Packet Inspection may continue to limit user experience

• Content – The Net Generation – On-demand will be much larger than broadcast; long-tail economics