J4CKO

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The web, even for geeks has only been around since the mid nineties, ok it started before that but as a usable proposition I would say its been ten years with non geeks catching on since about 1999, so its changed a lot since then but what are your predictions for the web in 2016 ?

Criss

Like minority report

you'll still prob have a PC, but it will be 15-20x more powerful

the internet connection will be 15-20x quicker

there will be about 100000% more ****

Scooby-Doo

Think I joined the internet around 1995 playing the good old Telnet mud games.

Hepy

Around 95 when I really started using it. Had a crappy Gateway 2000 Pentium P75 and a 14.4 modem.

boxst

Hello

Ah, I'm old. I started using these BBS things on a modem nearly 25 years ago that was 300 baud, although it had a "super switch" of 1200/75 or 'prestel mode'. A WS2000 I think it was called.

In 10 years time. who knows. Certainly a faster connection, I would imagine video on demand through that connection (although you can do it now, the quality isn't very good).

Steve

J4CKO

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I had a first attempt back in about 1989. won a car that I sold to my dad so I had cash, I treated my Amiga to a modem, got set up and started surfing 'Prestel', read a few messages, sent a Telex (remember them) to work and then stuck it in a cupboard and waited until the web got invented a few years later.

lightning101

I think multi cell processing will be the next stage, once we have gigabit broadband. Imagine being able to render 3D scenes with 100,000's of processors Should be useful for research processing as well.

GaryK

Ah prestel that takes me back. I first got on the web in about 94 using compuserve and 14.4 modem, o how we had fun on the cb chat on that, there was also cix but I never really liked that and then the first netscape browser.

Next 10 years, well I think we will see alot more media rich content as broadband not only becomes cheaper but more available and much faster and a proliferation of hotsposts means you can go anywhere and get wireless access. I think all applications will finally start to become server based and the premise of thin client which has been touted for 20+ years will become a reality coupled with web technologies that allow for functionally rich user interfaces to be developed.

Gary

Dream Weaver

Started in 1992, oneof the first uni's to have a full internet suite

It was funny back then, I still have printouts of the Ford website that I used for my dissertation.

Lots of possibilities for the future, but I think web applications and community/network stuff will become more powerful. Similar to forums/BBS's but with much more emphasis on community and social interaction as well as via the net.

davegtt

1997 for me, nowt much has changed, still hanging around talking to people on forums Just got quicker really, apart from that its all the same.

J4CKO

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Will be interesting to see, its all starting to make proper sense to the public and is actually getting quite useful and useable, I like the idea of media content being central and being able to download movies when I want to watch them without having to go to the video shop twice.

Hopefully it will end the cipboards of videos and DVD's. Its usefull to be able to get the news on your mobile but its also quite nice to get a paper to read, I suppose if papers do eventually start dying out when everybody has a cheap, easy to use and standard mobile method of picking up news, it will save a lot of resources, millions of tonnes of paper to print them on, millions of gallons of diesel to transport them.

Maybe the use of technology will start to stem the impending ecological agro ?

It does amaze me how far things have come, from the internet being the equivalent of Ham radio for IT nerds and a medium for forward thinking perverts, its actually used by my missus who said when I first got on line that it was crap and would never catch on.

KiwiGTI

In 10 years it will all be based on collaborative technologies and a whole new generation of web based apps similar to iTunes music store, Google Maps (and all their other apps) and the new Microsoft and Yahoo style mail apps etc

Higher speeds and wireless technologies will be pervasive and boundaries between devices will become even more blurred (think cameras/mobile phones/home phones/VOIP etc)

We'll possibly even see a large increase in the use of thin clients with public internet sites used for all processing and storage of data.

kernel

Been a home user of the internet since 92 when I upgraded to a 2400 baud modem. Was one of the first few to sign up on Demon's Tenner-a-Month plan. Used BBS's before then and also had a WS2000 All long distance phone calls in those days! That's scarey when you forget to hang up, an always on internet connection would have been close to 800 quid a month for a 0.0024Mbps connection

On that basis I'd expect to have a 3Gbps link