History of the internet and social media
History of the internet and social media
If you look at the development of the internet as we know it, then three things stand out: Technic, offer and behaviour. It starts with technical innovation, such as the first e-mail and the first large bulletin board. That changes the way we look. Then comes new offerings, such as XS4all, the first Dutch internet provider. The market is breaking open. Other players follow and the total playing field changes. Consumer behavior is developing: we are going to use more internet, social media, 4G. Pay attention to these 3 things, technology, offer and behavior, and you will immediately see how the history of the internet unfolds. Then it is easy to see which direction we are going: which technical innovations are there? What offer is there? How do we respond to this as consumers with our behavior?
Since when does the internet exist?
Simple question, but the answer depends on the definition you use:
- The very first start of the internet: On October 29 1969 10.30 pm PST (Pacific Time, 9 am later in Amsterdam CEST, so 7.30 am on 30 October 1969) first internet message ever ("lo") sent by UCLA student programming Charley Kliney from Boelter Hall 3420, via ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet.
- The birth of the WWW: It WWW is a number of technical agreements (URL, HTML, HTTP) that 'somewhere' in 1989 by internet grandfather Tim Berners-Lee was developed. On August 6, 1991 He posted a brief overview of the WWW project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. This way the WWW became publicly accessible, which is why many see this date as the date of birth of the worldwide web.
The run-up
Tim Berners-Lee, grandfather of the internet. (source: CERN)
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First message ever sent between two computers via ARPANET: "lo"
First e-mail sent |
| 1978 | First bulletin board: to inform friends about appointments, announcements and to share information. The first virtual community and the first emergence of social media. |
| 1979 | First major bulletin board: Usenet. For exchanging messages and files. Actually the first real social media, but without profiles, text-based. |
| 1985 | Start from America Online Service: this pioneering American internet service provider is the start of the internet for the first Americans online. Launch of dedicated online service for Commodore 64 and 128, called Quantum Link or Q-Link. AOL will grow to 20 million users in 1995. |
| 1988 | November 17, 1988: The Netherlands connected to the internet. Center for Mathematics and Computer Science receives first direct e-mail in the Netherlands.
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| 1989 | Start of itWorld Wide Web (WWW) through Tim Berners-Lee |
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First website ever goes live. View this here
August 6 birthday of the WWW Tim Berners-Lee shares his WWW project on the newsgroup alt.hypertext (unfortunately closed due to spam) |
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In the beginning, the internet was primarily the domain of scientists and nerds. The developments went steadily, but note: social media was there in the form of bulletin boards. This was fully posted and files exchanged. This was a time of pioneering and discovering. Tim Berners-Lee is the grandfather of the internet as we know it: he is the originator and founder of the WWW, he wrote the first web browser Mosaic and set up the first web server. A web server is a computer (or actually a program on a computer) that you can send a request to get an answer back. With a browser you do exactly that: you go to a URL, which refers to a web server, where you request whether you can see the content. A connection is made: your browser and the web server have a whole conversation.
The start of the internet
Google! search engine in 1998
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Start from MSN Messenger (getting a message sounded so) |
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Internet got off to a good start. Well ... ADSL only came in 2000. Anyone who was previously on the internet, knows the endless cracking of the modem (quickly one minute) that first made a connection via the telephone. And you only had a 56k connection, so it didn't have much speed. Now there were very few images for that, so sites were light. ADSL brought real innovation: the internet became visual. Icons instead of texts. And later, streaming video could come through, with the start of a video website where you could introduce yourself as a potential candidate for a vacancy: Youtube.
Second round internet history
Muhammed Ali selfie by Frank Haenen
"Every two days we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003. That's something like five exabytes of data."
Eric Schmidt, Google CEO
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The Hudson River plane crash first came through Twitter out, then through other channels. That has caused a true news revolution. A journalist must be on Twitter, and new challenges such as quickly verifying news are coming before someone else is declared dead and still happily walking around.
History of social media
When and how did social media arise? What was the first social media? The history of social media is the same as that of the internet. Usenet, from 1979, already had users exchange messages and files. This resulted in discussions about sports, science, literature and music, and in particular illegal copies of games and software. In 1995 there was classmates.com, the very first profile site. Friendster.com in 2002 became the first real social media as we now recognize it with the first 1 million profiles, followed in 2003 by MySpace and LinkedIn. Facebook and Hyves in 2004 were not so revolutionary, but built on earlier innovations and proven techniques.
Why Facebook won over Hyves
In August 2011 Facebook attracted more unique visitors in the Netherlands than Hyves. Facebook was more accessible because less extensive, and Facebook was internationally oriented. That is something that will certainly have played a role for Dutch people. Because those new holiday friends asked you if you had Facebook than if you had explained what Hyves was.
Third phase internet
This photo is possible created by David Slaters... but taken by the macaque itself.
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We are not nearly at the end yet. An interesting development is Kickstarter, a very successful one crowdfunding platform. What's so interesting about crowdfunding? The need is placed for production and marketing. First it is checked whether there is support for it, then it is made and marketed. Marketing of some time ago was focused on creating the need, after the product had already been invented and made. That is therefore a major change, for which the supply in the Netherlands has now been expanded.
Another development is the Amazon cloud service: this makes scalability affordable and directly accessible for every website and e-commerce platform. As users, we mainly notice that sites work faster and offer more functionalities. This makes Amazon the largest hosting provider in the world. (5x as big as all 14 competitors who come together).
Source main image is Wikipedia.org: Visualization of internet routing paths
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