Living in the Information

Technology Era
ICT Trends, the Internet and
World Wide Web
ARPANET
• experimental communication system funded by the U.S.
Department of Defense
• the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
• Arpanet began operating in 1969
• Arpanet's first international links were established in 1973, when
hosts in Great Britain and Norway signed on.

History of the Internet

EARLY COMMERCIAL NETWORKS.
• Telenet
• by Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN)
• BBN sold Telenet Communications Corp

History of the Internet

EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN INTERNET
• 1980s were the Internet's most defining years
• early 1980s Arpanet had adopted the TCP/IP communications
standards that would become commonplace on the Internet
• National Science Foundation's NSFNET, which came online in the
mid-1980s to link several supercomputing laboratories with U.S
• From just 213 host computers on Arpanet in 1981, the Internet had
burgeoned to include some 10,000 hosts by 1987, and topped
300,000 by 1990,

History of the Internet

WORLD WIDE WEB
• 1989 proposal at the Swiss physics lab CERN
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Standards
• hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
• hypertext mark up language (HTML)
• uniform resource locator (URL)

History of the Internet

WORLD WIDE WEB
• By 1990, Berners-Lee had likewise created the first Web browser
and server software to feed information to the browser.
• Marc Andreessen's Mosaic browser
• the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
• early 1994 established Netscape Communications Corp. with
Silicon Valley titan Jim Barksdale
•

History of the Internet

The first iteration of the web represents the web 1.0
“read-only web.”

Web 1.0
the “read-write
YouTube and MySpace
simply requires that users can interact or contribute content.

Web 2.0
“read-write-execute.”
consider semantic markup and web services
• Semantic markup refers to the communication gap
between humans and computerized applications
• formatting data to be understood by software agents

Web 3.0
INFORMATION EXCHANGE.
• e-mail and other person-to-person communications, e.g., computer conferencing
• online marketing and brand building
• employee recruitment
• investor and public relations information distribution
• intranets for employee knowledge sharing and collaboration
• extranets to enable outsourcing and supply-chain integration

BUSINESS USES OF THE

INTERNET
E-COMMERCE.
• preparing customers for the sale
• facilitating the actual transaction
• managing any follow-up to the sale

BUSINESS USES OF THE

INTERNET
Artificial intelligence
• Predictive Sales/Lead Scoring
• CRM/Service Delivery Optimization
• Chatbots/Digital Assistants
• Cybersecurity Threat Detection
• Marketing Automation

Emerging Trends in Information

Technology for 2020-2021
• Advanced Coding Languages
• Big Data Analytics
• Blockchain
• Computer Vision
• Customer Data Platforms

Emerging Trends in Information

Technology for 2020-2021
• Cybersecurity Mesh
• Serverless Computing
• Cloud Computing
• Digital Health
• Digital Twin
• Edge Computing
• IoB (Internet of Behaviors)

Emerging Trends in Information

Technology for 2020-2021
• IoT(The Internet of Things), or IoT,
• Asset Tracking
• Industrial Monitoring
• Smart Badges
• Fleet Management
• Smart Buildings

Emerging Trends in Information

Technology for 2020-2021
• Low-Code Technology
• Quantum Computing
• Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
• Spatial Computing
• Total Experience
• 5G in Everyday Life

Emerging Trends in Information

Technology for 2020-2021
• Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Smart Home Technology
• Open Source Solutions

Emerging Trends in Information

Technology for 2020-2021