World Wide Web – Past, Present and the Future V. Balasubramanian Portal Developer University Informatics Centre Bharathidasan University
The Hindu (Nov. 2015) 40.20 Crores Before the end of Dec. 2015 2001-2011 20 crores 2011-2014 40 Crores 2014-2015
IAMAI – Internet And Mobile Association of India
WORLD IN TRANSITION The Web continues to change Commerce, Governance, Entertainment, Education,....
Topics of Discussion The Evolution The Future Transformations Inflicted by WWW Big Data Net Neutrality
Genesis and History of The Internet and the WWW USSR - SPUTNIK in 1958 DARPA – TCP/IP – VINTON CERF (1969) INTER NETWORK Vannevar Bush’s ‘as we may think’ (1945)
The Idea is to… Consolidating human knowledge and know-how Integrating Knowledge as chains – Hyper Links - Memex (Memory and Index) Hyperlinking of the information stored in the human brain analogy for linking the information stored in the machines (computers) too
A Conversation W: ஏங்க, நம்ம கோயிஞ்சாமி இருக்காரே.. H: எந்த கோயிஞ்சாமி, கூடுவாஞ்சேரில இருக்காரே அவரா? W: அவர்தாங்க. அவர் பையன் கூட டாக்டரா இருக்கானே. H: ஆமாம், டாக்டர் மகேஷ், அவனைக்கூட சுந்தரேசன் வீட்டு நாய் கடிச்சிடுச்சே W: ஆமாம், ஒரு கறுப்பு டாபர்மேன் நாய் Information Retrieval Linking and Orchestration (Facebook’s Social Graph, Makemytrip) Tim Berners Lee The Top 3’s of WWW http, HTML, URL
Web 1.0 The Read Only Web Shopping Carts and Static Web Browse Information and Read it Search Engines, Directories, News Portals Text, Images, Videos, News….
Web 2.0 I am not just a viewer I am contributor The common man’s web Read-Write web Blogger, Wiki, Facebook, Youtube, Picassa, Twitter, Flicker, Amazon Cloud Services, Instagram
Web 2.0
Web 3.0 Read-Write-Execute Bridge the Communication Gap between users and the web Context aware Search Results – “Relevancy Matters” Lets see a an example
The role of Semantic Web Add semantic annotations to web resources NL annotations (possibly with rendering annotation) already associated with images (only way google can find them) Augment NL with semantic annotation. Dr. Alan Rector, Professor of Computer Science, University of Manchester Dr. <Person>Alan Rector</Person>, <Job>Professor of Computer Science</Job>, University of Manchester Rev. <Person>Alan M. Gates</Person>, <Job>Associate Rector</Job> of the Church of the Holy Spirit, Lake Forest, Illinois Rev. Alan M. Gates, Associate Rector of the Church of the Holy Spirit, Lake Forest, Illinois
Web 3.0 – Semantics, Modeling and Reasoning
But we’re moving on… The Web has gone from an application to a development platform – new webapps, like twitter, live on top of the Web architecture, putting new and exciting engineering challenges on the underlying technologies.
Web 4.0 – Mobile / Intelligent Web Web needed to adapt to it’s mobile surroundings Web 4.0 connects all devices Symbiotic Web More Interaction / More Intelligent Example: Credit Card Purchase Behavior & CIBIL Ratings
Industries Transformed: The Transformations Inflicted by WWW Television – Remember Vyapuri’s Question to Vivek in 1997 ? Internet TV - Split Screens, Gaming Televisions Hulu, Youtube, Hotstar, Netflix Home Networking (Viswaroopam 2 ?) Recommender Systems
Industries Transformed: The Transformations Inflicted by WWW Mobile Phones - The phone in your pocket has more programmable memory, more storage and more capability than several large IBM computers Need for Device Agnostic / Responsive Design More smartphones than people
Responsive Design
Mobile Commerce Zamoto, Bookmyshow Ebay, Black Friday Sales Amazon Apps Flipkart Billion Day, Snapdeal Myantra – Shut websites, Keep Mobile apps Paytm, Oxigen, SBI Buddy irctc.co.in – loads faster and quicker through mobile than through desktop browsers OLA and UBBER Psychological Push towards buying a product
Industries Transformed: The Transformations Inflicted by WWW Education https://teamtreehouse.com/ https://www.edx.org/ http://alison.com/ https://www.coursera.org/ https://www.udacity.com/ http://www.khanacademy.org/ https://www.udemy.com/ https://p2pu.org/en/pages/about/ https://www.canvas.net
Industries Transformed: The Transformations Inflicted by WWW E-Governance VAO’s into cloud computing Digital access is our “right” not just a facility Registration Department – Before and After Encumbrance Certificate (8 D – 5 M) Registration (4 D – 60 M) Marriage Extract (1 D – 5 M)
Net Neutrality Service should be available to anyone who wishes to use it regardless of who they are, where they are and what they can afford to pay WWW in china Whatsapp call not allowed No Twitter, Just Weibo Gender Determination Advertisements are banned in India
Thanx! balav@bdu.ac.in