History: Commercialization and Growth
In the late 1990s, networks and the Internet increasingly used to completely change the way business. Amazon and other companies set up and develop very quickly. This week is about the commercialization and growth of the network.
Explosive Growth of the Internet and Web
The Year of the Web
In April 1994, NCSA employee turnover and the establishment of Netscape. The first session of the World Wide Web Conference, held in Switzerland; and soon, the next sequential another World Wide Web Conference, held book Robert Cailliau and Tim Berners-Lee spoke about some relevant content in Chicago. In October 1994, Tim departure from CERN established a World Wide Web (World Wide Web) alliance. At the end of 94 years, an embedded Internet browser Windows 95 Beta2 available, built-in TCP / IP protocol. In less than a year, almost only six months, the world is completely changed, money began to flow into the market, Netscape at the forefront of change.
Netscape open source products mainly to do, they just started to compete in the browser product, but they soon decided to make their browser and the web server more proprietary technology. They try to patent the product only with Netscape to do a distributed computer programs. This is a great threat to Microsoft's business, and therefore have built Windows95 TCP / IP protocol and free browser.
So, in a way is a terrible Netscape, Microsoft tried to buy Netscape, Netscape but the asking price is high, and finally gave up. Under pressure after Microsoft, Netscape trying to make better software, trying to survive. Netscape also trying to transition, the transition to more open source, they make the decision to establish the open-source Mozilla project, which later became the Mozilla Foundation, and finally evolved into Firefox (Firefox).
Mitchell Baker: The Mozilla Foundation
Mitchell Baker (born 1959) is Executive Chairman of the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation, the Mozilla Corporation is a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, responsible for coordinating the development of open-source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox Web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird email client .
For this interview about the Mozilla open source project is the start of Mitchell and difficulties on the way through.
Brendan Eich - Inventor of JavaScript
Brendan Eich1961年生于美国加州的森尼维尔市, graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During 1995 worked at Netscape, the browser is Netscape developed JavaScript, then the browser has become one of the most widely used scripting language. Brandon was established in 1998 to assist mozilla, after 2003, AOL decided to end development of Netscape browser, Brendan assist in the establishment of the Mozilla Foundation.
Commercialization of the Web
Brendan and Mitchell and those who create Internet technology has done a lot, they are trying to prevent them from becoming too proprietary technology, a lot of people to give up their own personal interests, try to believe that through greater open source community interests.
Tim Burners-Lee went to MIT, MIT funded him, to help him create the World Wide Web Consortium, and played a positive leadership role in standard definition. Tim, Mitchell, Joseph and many outstanding researchers, and do not want the browser to the Internet and other technologies into a charge and closed, they think it should be free and open to everyone. But compared to Netscape and they do not have any advantage, so they have long since joined the World Wide Web Consortium, and gave it enough credibility in which to contribute.
Jeff Bezos - Founder of Amazon
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, this interview, Jeff tells his idea originally created the Amazon, he saw an amazing network statistics at the time - to use the network at a rate of 2300 percent annual growth. Therefore, he hopes to find a reasonable business model to accommodate this growth rate. , He readily agreed to hold the attention of the public share, Amazon is also the beginning to do quite well in this regard.
The Modern Internet
As Jeff said, that crazy in 96,97,98 years, investments of approximately 3000% rate of growth each year, people continue to buy buy buy. This forms a communication concept will become very important, the ability to transmit data through the optical fiber, through the communication capability in a rapid rise in both sides of the terminal equipment upgrades. The rapid economic growth, the number on the Web server is also skyrocketing, until the economic collapse in 2000, the number of servers have declined. Although the advent of the Internet and will not be endless, no side effects to promote growth, and even then there was also the economic bubble, but the web, networks and related technology or the economy of the 1990s labeled the world.