WWW: From inception to Web 2.0 and beyondSalvador Sánchez-AlonsoPhD. in Computer ScienceAss. Professor @ University of Alcala

Research @ University of Alcala

Not (only) boring stuff!

Research in Computing?

E-learning

Virtual Worlds

Artificial Intelligence

Security

Internet Technologies

Human Interfaces

Telemedicine

Mobile applications

Bioinformatics

This talk

The Internet is a MASSIVE network of computers, a networking infrastructure.

It connects MILLIONS of computers together.

devices

The Web is the largest human information construct in

history.

The Web is transforming society.

2,267,233,742 users.

We can no longer understand our lives without it!

Internet: A military experiment

1970’s

During the seventies, computers grew in strength, speed and capabilities

They began to be part of everyday life

Personal devices? Do it yourself!

Late 1980’s

Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web

From…

Early 1990’s

To…

Late 1990’s

Web 1.0 was great!

- Internet was no longer for experts- More and more information was made available

- Accessible everywhere, anytime- Email was a major shift in the way people learned to

communicate

However….

- Difficult to find the right thing- Information, but not participation

- Poor design- Slow

An example of Web 1.0

user generated content +

social networks+

multimedia integration +

collaboration+

user centered design

social networking sites web applications blogswikis mash-ups folksonomiesvideo sharing siteshosted services

Web 2.0

WIKI

Web 2.0

BLOG

Web 2.0

Community

Web 2.0

User generated content

Web 3.0

Semantic Web +

Personalization+

Common data formats

Reference material

• Some pictures were taken/adapted from “NSF and the Birth of the Internet” @ http://www.nsf.gov

• Learn more about the topic by listening to the talk by Tim Berners Lee @ http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html

• Evolution Web 1.0, Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsNcjya56v8

E-mail: salvador.sanchez@uah.es