The Internet - Basics, Technologies, Case Studies

the Internet

Basics, Technologies, Case Studies - A Real Time Internet Presentation for the International Association of Business Communicators by L. Van Warren

	Basics
	CPU's
	Desktop PC's
In House	ISP's	Out Sourced
	Browsers
	Searchers
	EMail/EHTML
	HTML Authoring
NetScape Netcaster	NetCast/"Push"	PointCast Company
NETIQUETTE	Road Rules	SKEPTIQUETTE
	Traffic Reports

	Technologies
= This is a Billboard from the Information Highway =

Navigation	Net Radio
Web Cams	Digital Vending Machines	Web Video
StoreFronts	ECommerce	Web TV
wdv Espanola	Reach	wdv Francaise

Isopreonoids	Case Studies	Vision
Webucation
Screen Bandwidth 15" 17" 19" 20" 21" Wall Projector Theatre Projection Building Side Projection	Bandwidth = Bits Per Second Time	Net Bandwidth 14.4 28.8 KBps Modems 33.6 58 ISDN ASL DirectPC T1 /T3 Frame Relay
Other Topics: Digital House Control Digital Auto Tracking Java, ECommerce, Data Mining, Web Towns, Putting a Web Site Together, Name Space = Web Real Estate Just Think
the 18 character universal brochure http://www.wdv.com

Extra Credit

An Analogy: The Infobahn Vs. The Interstate

"a 747 for the cost of a pizza." -- Bill Gates

"the CB radio of the 1990's" -- Marilyn Manson

100 horsepower engine =

16 gallon gas tank =

4 seats =

highways =

1 year of calendar time =

100 MegaHertz CPU
16 Megabyte of RAM memory
4 Gigabytes of Disk space
wires & cables
1 month of virtual time

	Vehicle	Road
prehistory	horse	dirt path
distant past	Model-T	paved roads
past	semitruck	2 lane blktop
recent past	stationWagon	interstate
present	SUV	tollway
future	Maxmobile	urban jungle

we are still in the railroad era, chained to the phone

Network	Computer
messenger	abacus	prehistory
telephone	calculator	distant past
ARPA Net	mainframe	past
LAN	minicomputer	recent past
ISP,T1	desktop PC	present
Richochet	infopliance	future

richochet is the "free ranging automobile"

Fuel = wood --> coal --> oil --> nuclear --> solar

Fuel = tubes --> trans. --> IC's --> mainframes --> MicroCPU's

Moore's Law

"Every 18 months you can buy a computer that goes twice as fast." It the same were true of cars we could now travel 135 million times the speed of light...

19 Wierd Rules of The Internet 0) The Power of the Net is Document Exchange 1) Most Everything is Free 2) Direct Mail Doesn't Work 3) Time Is Compressed 4) The Web is a Democracy 5) No One is "In-Charge" 6) Knowledge is Cheap 7) Good Content is Expensive 8) The Web Routes Around Disaster 9) There is Good and Evil 10) Content has Global Scope 11) Searchers Bring Customers 12) There are 10,000 Other Sites in your Field 13) You Must Rank High in the Search 14) There are Secrets to Getting High Ranking 15) Advertising on the Web is like Advertising in Thomas Register. 16) Only Killer Content Keeps Them Returning 17) Killer Content is Hand Crafted 18) The Web is its Own Medium It is like Ham Radio It is like the Library It is like the Phone It is like TV Is is like Itself Bill Gates is right. So is Marilyn Manson.