It has only been 20 years since restrictions where lifted and the World Wide Web became a commercial and public platform. At that time there wasn't even any kind of webhosting service so within 10 years you could only really say it had been established. There had been massive growth during the dot-com boom but there would be even more in the years to follow.
By 2001 we where still at the stage where Australia was banning forwarding of emails because they technically infringed on personal copyright laws. These where the days of Napster was creating controversy over digital music rights and for the first time in history five High Schools in the US got Internet2 connections. It was the first time that Verisign adopted the full Unicode set, opening it up to use in all languages. These could still be considered the early stages of the internet.
What has changed the most in the last ten years is the amount of resources that are available for website hosting. The monthly price on average has pretty much stayed the same but what you get for your money has multiplied many times. The amount of storage space and bandwidth for traffic has multiplied exponentially over the years.
Before website hosting was introduced anyone who wanted to post anything on the web had to have their own servers. This was not really feasible for small operators so eventually someone came up with the idea of renting out space on commercial servers. In the beginning this was very expensive and complicated but it also seemed like the next big thing so everyone wanted to invest in it.
Technology developed faster than the demand at that time and hardware capacity soon became large and inexpensive. This led to price wars and only the most competitive suppliers could make it through. Smaller Tier 1 providers where bought out and amalgamated into the larger suppliers.
At this stage the most common modem was still a 56K dial up and there are only about 500 million internet users worldwide so bandwidth restrictions are not really an issue. In order for servers to really use their capacity it would be necessary for connections to be much faster. As the connection speed increased there was a greater demand for content as people would spend more time online.
Free services such as social networking and YouTube changed the way a lot of content was stored online. It also increased the amount of time people spent online and this led to increased sharing. Websites where also able to be far more complex which could then make used of the extended capacity available. As time went by the way we used free service changed and by 2009 we see the end of Geocities. This in a way marks the end of Web1.0.
The biggest difference today apart from the capacity that is available is that there are also more choices available. Because the technology available has become more accessible and easier to use, more and more people are managing their own services or becoming resellers. Technology such as cloud hosting is also guaranteeing almost permanent uptime and scalability.
By 2001 we where still at the stage where Australia was banning forwarding of emails because they technically infringed on personal copyright laws. These where the days of Napster was creating controversy over digital music rights and for the first time in history five High Schools in the US got Internet2 connections. It was the first time that Verisign adopted the full Unicode set, opening it up to use in all languages. These could still be considered the early stages of the internet.
What has changed the most in the last ten years is the amount of resources that are available for website hosting. The monthly price on average has pretty much stayed the same but what you get for your money has multiplied many times. The amount of storage space and bandwidth for traffic has multiplied exponentially over the years.
Before website hosting was introduced anyone who wanted to post anything on the web had to have their own servers. This was not really feasible for small operators so eventually someone came up with the idea of renting out space on commercial servers. In the beginning this was very expensive and complicated but it also seemed like the next big thing so everyone wanted to invest in it.
Technology developed faster than the demand at that time and hardware capacity soon became large and inexpensive. This led to price wars and only the most competitive suppliers could make it through. Smaller Tier 1 providers where bought out and amalgamated into the larger suppliers.
At this stage the most common modem was still a 56K dial up and there are only about 500 million internet users worldwide so bandwidth restrictions are not really an issue. In order for servers to really use their capacity it would be necessary for connections to be much faster. As the connection speed increased there was a greater demand for content as people would spend more time online.
Free services such as social networking and YouTube changed the way a lot of content was stored online. It also increased the amount of time people spent online and this led to increased sharing. Websites where also able to be far more complex which could then make used of the extended capacity available. As time went by the way we used free service changed and by 2009 we see the end of Geocities. This in a way marks the end of Web1.0.
The biggest difference today apart from the capacity that is available is that there are also more choices available. Because the technology available has become more accessible and easier to use, more and more people are managing their own services or becoming resellers. Technology such as cloud hosting is also guaranteeing almost permanent uptime and scalability.
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