The future of WorldWideWeb Although the majority of
The future of World-Wide-Web • Although the majority of people know World. Wide-Web because of web browsers, the usefulness of the Internet is not merely limited to the purpose of connecting global information network. The Internet has been influential to our daily life and working styles in businesses, and governments due to the inventions of new software system and protocols such as email, FTP, BBS, Telnet, Gopher, and so on. With the establishment of the Internet, global communications are boundary-less.
• cording to “Annual national research of the Internet applications”, domestic web users have exceeded 2 millions since April, 1998. However, the great majority of the users tended to be young, male, and highly educated population. Besides, most of surfers were complaining about the qualities and contents of their online experience. Thus, improving network services and qualities became essential.
• American Science and Education was cooperating with more than one hundred universities to develop “The Internet 2” for improving the efficiency and quality of distance learning and online education. The project was expected to be 10 to 1000 times faster than the existing framework. “The Internet 2” was intended to avoid overcrowed business activities on the Internet. Ironically there were people pointing out that our tax payers spent tons of money on “The Internet 2” project without benefitting from it at all. However, this shows heavily public demands and priorities toward the Internet.
• Because of the controversy of “The Internet 2”, U. S. government started a 5 year prioritized project called NGI (Next Generation Internet). The project, passed by the U. S. congress in 1998, was awarded of 100 million dollars budget annually from 1998 to 2002. • With NGI, U. S. once again affirms the world leading position in Telecommunication infrastructure. NGI will be focusing on the developments of advanced network technologies, and broad band network constructions, implementations, and applications.
• No matter what generation you were, no one could deny the role of before World-Wide. Web in course of human evolutionary history as its popularity increased. As a result, we should apply this technology efficiently to create a better tomorrow.
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