None of us wanted to miss our best tool’s birthday did we?
It’s now 20 years since the www exists. Where was I 20 years ago? Very probably in Madrid learning how to add, subtract and multiply.
My first contact with the web was in 1997/98 at school, with computers in general… my first tomb raider, my first sim city, my first Word doc… and obviously my first internet explorer experience (also my first google!).
Tim Berners-Lee thinks that Internet is only the tip of the iceberg of all the new futuristic technologies to come, like for example, Cyberspace … does this mean we’re not that far from Virtuosity, The Lawnmower Man or even Matrix? WOW.
I seriously want to agree, however, will we still be alive by then? (given that other scientists also think immortality will be discover by the end of this century…).
One thing is sure; Internet will overpass TV sooner or later. Right now (as Tv in its origins) less than 24% of world population have an internet connexion. US with a 73 % of penetration rate followed by Australia (59%) and Europe (less than 50%? :S) show that Internet is the next big media. A media whose investments still have to grow, meaning Google & friends have to get bigger, fatter, richer.
Another trend is mobile internet, iPhone users have started to spend more time navigating from a mobile device than from a traditional PC / Mac. Future mobile devices (my glorious Pre), internet tablets, umpcs… confirm the trend. Internet is now accessible everywhere.
Our favourite CERN physicist, creator of the Hypertext also talks about the Linked Open Data Movement: basically sharing ALL the information included in the big databases like Wikipedia or Google (even twitter now 
). Amen.
With user growth rates at more than 1000% in Africa or the Middle East, no important brand or company can miss out the internet.
Long live the new media King!
See you @ Rennes
added value…
Opera 78… a design board established in 2005 by Fiodor SUMKIN, illustrator and designer based in Amsterdam and Paris.
Delicate typography & pertinent messages.
