DocAndersen
So yesterday I got through the first part of the revolution that was computers. Today I want o talk about reality in front of us. What is the internet? First off, the interest is a vast ocean of information. But, as I always tell people when I give information, and IT talks, you are standing on a 50-foot platform. Your mission is to dive into the internet headfirst. Based on that fact that much of the internet is less than an inch deep with real information, you get to choose when you dive. The internet has made three distinct evolutions in the past 20 years. I am exploding from the folks at CERN around 1992. The Mosaica project at the University of Illinois created a browser.
The web browser was the first evolution of the internet. The next evolution was the reality of self-publication. Sites like Virily, and before it Niume and many others. More failures than you realize. More success than we probably realize as well. The last evolution of the internet occurred around the same time as the publication platforms, but it was more of a device platform change. Wireless or what we often call Smart Phones exploded on the scene. Publication platforms started to appear around 2002. The Smartphone appeared before that but didn’t explode onto the market until Steve Jobs stood on stage with an iPhone in 2007. Sometimes, it is critical to have marketing.
So what happens next is interesting. Publication without verification allows this post. Niume and Virily both had a period where you couldn’t directly publish your posts. However, Blogspot, Live, WordPress, and others allow people to create their blogs. The reality is that the “dis or miss” information is apart of what happened with the creation of more “un” managed information sources. The rise of mobility made many blogs even shorter and smaller to fit into the window of a smartphone or tablet. Information becomes the problem not the gold at the end of the rainbow. I have begun to consider searching on the internet to be like the game fish (if you need a 4, assuming that the other person isn’t holding 3) you would have a 1 in 9 chance of drawing a 4.) that is how I look at internet search now. If I am looking for specific information I try to go to the known good source for that information. If I am troubleshooting something, I got to that companies website.
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There are three screens in the picture, right?
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Searching the internet is frustrating right?
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It would be nice to see and know more about how Virily works right?
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Dis, Mis information is all over the internet?
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Sources matter, right?
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The “dis or miss” problem, as you and I are old enough to know, has always been around. But thanks to the Internet the problem is multiplied more than ten thousandfold. But the reaction and response of humans should still be the same. VERIFY!! I don’t know why people think they should believe “a thing” just because … it’s on the Internet!
True, and true. I get sad when I see that.
3 screens: my view, your view and the absolute view ?. Still, it is better that we have internet now compared to using the goddamn encyclopaedia ?
hah!
there are actually five screens it was a trick question!
1d,2d, 3d, 4d, 5d all covered by the absolute d ??
and then there were none.
🙂
Q: There are three screens in the picture, right?
Yes (8 votes) – 100%
Q: Searching the internet is frustrating right?
Yes (4 votes) – 57%
No (3 votes) – 43%
Q: It would be nice to see and know more about how Virily works right?
Yes (7 votes) – 100%
Q: Dis, Mis information is all over the internet?
Yes (6 votes) – 86%
No (1 votes) – 14%
Q: Sources matter, right?
Yes (7 votes) – 100%
there were actually five screens including the reflection on a screen
I think it’s kind of mixed experience now. Sometimes I get what I need but other times it makes me confused.
I think that is the danger. For example, i know that IMDB always has correct information about Movies. But I don’t go to IMDB to find a code snippet for an application I am working on.
It is very difficult to find a proper source on internet.
proper sources are tough on the internet I agree.
most of my searches are for images or resources, so it isn’t that tough…
finding anything easy
knowing that it is legal and free to use
impossible…well not impossible but risky.
yeah, that can be tough…
It can be, now it impacts you more. Have you ever found one of your images used somewhere you didn’t authorize?
once or twice. it isn’t a big problem for me
you have been very fortunate. I have a friend who is a photographer. He walked into a gallery in NYC, filled with his pictures.
(well 10-12 of them). He had never been there before.
since I don’t publish large versions of my work, they wouldn’t reproduce well anyway…
so what did your friend do?
he actually sat down with the gallery owner, showed the owner the originals. The owner then cooperated with the police, and they caught the person. Took 3 years and my friend never got around 120,000 in lost sales and pictures. He refused to take the pictures back from the people that paid the gallery for them.
wow, that sucks. what happened to the thief?
My friend’s studio had been broken into about 8 months before and his laptop with his pictures had been stolen.
The thief denied that he stole the pictures. When they checked the accused’s apartment they found the laptop and a few of my friend’s personal items. The trail starts next month (Sep).
talk about adding insult to injury
On the Internet, appearing wide range of information from different sources. It is difficult for a layman to get the right source.
that is so true, it makes me nervous about information even more!
So much misinformation out there that many believe and take at face value. I have to try my best to verify and get the truth. It is a challenge for sure.
it makes me sad, the internet began with such great promise. the team at CERN reduced the pre-work for supercollider tests by weeks.
Very interesting story about the internet, my friend
Thanks people often forget how we get to where we are.
True, this post is very interesting …. to know at least a little about the Internet
I always like the line “those who don’t remember history, are doomed to repeat it” although as one of the people building the IT world at the birth of the internet I won’t forget. I would not want to go through that again!
This line is about me and I agree with it … I will have to repeat it many more times
I suspect it applies to all of us at various times!
Thank you for continuing the story of the internet.
I worry about the information around us all the time.
Thanks for the kind words!
It’s good to learn about Internet. I remember the first time to access Internet. I thought, aren’t I in another world not earth.
I have an idea how the internet begun.
Is the Netscape browser still in existence? It was the first browser to use. I miss it.
Netscape is long gone now. It actually was built by a bunch of folks at the University of Illinois, all of them were part of the Mosiac team!
It’s good to know the team behind it. Thanks.
Happy to help in anyway I can