Internet history, Technology and Security (Week 4)

Week 4history:commercialization and growth

We are now moving into Week 4! This week, we'll be covering commercialization and growth. The late 1990 ' s saw the web and Internet used increasingly to revolutionize how business is done. Companies like Amazon were founded and grew very rapidly.

We are now entering the 4th week! This week, we will be involved in commercialization and growth. In the late the 1990s, the internet and the Internet were increasingly used to revolutionize business. Companies like Amazon are set up and grow rapidly.

Explosive growth of the Internet and webthe year of the Web

1994 and 1993 were markedly different, and NCSA's staff founded Netscape in April 94. The first World Wide Web meeting took place in Switzerland, and another World Wide Web conference was held in Chicago.
In October 94, Tim left CERN and formed the World Wide Web Consortium. At the end of the year, Microsoft's Windows BETA2 built-in browser and TCP/IP.

Microsoft and Netscape: Netscape has tried more than once to create a Web application that allows users to operate through a browser. This caught Microsoft's attention, fearing that Netscape might threaten Microsoft's operating system and application market, and then bought Mosaic's authorization in 1995 for the Telescope Entertainment Company (Spyglass Entertainment), on the basis of which Internet Explorer was developed. Enter the browser market, the two sides of fierce competition in this open. The rivalry between Netscape's Netscape Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer was later called "Browser wars."

In January 1998, Netscape and Microsoft IE Browser competition lost, in order to restore the market, Netscape Communications Company announced that all its software after the release is free, and open the source code of Netscape Communicator (Netscape Communicator) 4.0, the establishment of the informal organization Mozilla.
In a word, Microsoft and Netscape hit, then Microsoft won, Netscape's browser changed, that is, now the famous Firefox (Firefox).

Mitchell baker:the Mozilla Foundation

Who is Mitchell Baker? Currently the Mozilla Foundation and the executive chairman of Mozilla Inc. The battle with Microsoft's browser was lost, and Netscape was bought by AOL. With 7, 8 employees employed by Netscape, Mozilla employs more than 100 Netscape engineers who build Netscape products and contribute to Mozilla's open source. But their situation is not good, it can be called the Dark years, it took a long time to rebuild the core technology, while market share also slipped. There are two ideas for open source, one of which is that open source is amazing, the code can be shared and used after open source, but all the decisions are controlled by the management team, which is the mode of the Netscape browser (Netscape Browser) Mitchell that it is impossible to do so on Mozilla, a product designed by AOL will only be of interest to a small group of people. The post of Netscape 6 is considered a bad product, which is not good news for Mozilla, but worse. Since the rapid decline in development, AOL began to lay off workers in 2001, including Mitchell. But Mitchell continues to participate as a volunteer in product development, a product known as Mozilla. Mitch Kapor, a Mozilla supporter, decided to stop investing in Mozilla in 2003, but eventually Mozilla still got 2 million of the investment, Mitch to help.
As a result, the Mozilla Foundation was established in 2003 and Mitch became the first president. There was a period of time before Firefox was released, and the Mozilla Group focused its attention on search, so it had a fruitful discussion with Google and other search providers.
After Firefox has been released like a virus storm received a wide range of welcome, finally can make money AH!

Brendan Eich-inventor of JavaScript

Brandon Aichi (Brendan eich,1961), the inventor of JavaScript, currently (from 2005 to 2014) worked as chief technology Officer (chief technology Officer) at Mozilla Corporation. The CEO of Mozilla was forced to resign in 10 days.
In 1994, Netscape published a browser that could not be used for interaction, only for browsing pages. Netscape is eager to solve the problem of interaction, but whether to use the existing language or a new language to develop it? This is the Java language, Sun and Netscape co-launched JavaScript, this is not by chance named. Brendan Eich was hired in May 1995.

Netscape wants to have a language similar to Java, but the writing is more simple, so let Brendan Eich to take charge of the work, but Brendan Eich did not like to do this job, so spent 10 days to do a cursory JavaScript,,, (The language that now swept the world has such a magical birth background ...) ）

Commercialization of the Webassume the Web

If the then Microsoft and Netscape competition finally is Netscape victory, then Netscape will make network and network services are patented, and then sell 80~100 dollars? If so, the network will not be as popular as it is today. Fortunately, Microsoft put IE free and placed into its own Windows system, which prompted Netscape not to charge the browser, the end of the rough hum Firefox and the birth of Mozilla. There are also the. Founded in October 1994 by Tim Berners_lee, the company has made a number of specifications, such as defining what HTML is, and CSS standards.

The teacher's assessment of Tim Berners_lee is that he is a truly intelligent person who has a strong vision for the future and a real and profound understanding of the Internet and the Web. Protecting the freedom of the Internet is a responsibility for all of us, not for private companies to become private.
One of the early "crowds" who had this idea---Jeff Bezos (Jeff Bezos), the founder of Amazon (Amazon.com), a businessman whose thinking was different (at the time): Assuming this network exists, browsers exist, protocols exist, What can I do to make the most of these? Take a look at the next section! 、

Jeff Bezos-founder of Amazon

Jeff Bezos is the founder of the Amazon website. He was working for a quantitative hedge fund and found an astonishing statistic comb: Internet usage is growing by 2,300% a year! So he started looking for a meaningful business plan. He chose books as the first product to be sold online, because it was best for selling books. In the first year of Amazon.com's opening to the public, they did not make any paid advertising, and all growth was driven by word-of-mouth and media exposure.

Internet history, Technology and Security (Week 4)