Part one:
• Dr Aleks Krotoski presenter
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee – inventor of the world wide web
• Divides between digital haves and have not’s shrinking fast
• The web is the defining technological revolution of our lifetimes
• Almost 2 billion of us are now online
• The web has created unimaginable wealth yet encouraged millions to work for nothing
• The internet has been blamed for creating a generation of web addicts yet opened up realms of knowledge
• Bill Gates co-founder of Microsoft
• Steve Wozniak co-founder of Apple computer
• Mark Zuckerburg co-founder and CEO of facebook
• Been more than two centuries (industrial revolution) since we have witnessed anything of the same scale and speed of the web
• The web allows anyone to publish and distribute any words, images, videos, software globally and instantly and virtually for free
• A quarter of the planet uses the web
• Britain spend about a billion pound a week on the web
• 5 million use a dating website every month
• 18 million of us read blogs
• The web blows open access to knowledge
• Einar Kvavran – Wikipedia contributor
• Around 65 million use Wikipedia per month
• Wikipedia has 14 million articles
Part 2:
• The levelling ambitions of the online world can be traced back to the counter culture of the 19060s – San francisco – libertarianism began to take route – mix of both left and right wing ideas and rejected state control the legal system and sensor ship while emphasizing the importance of individual free will
• For the first time in the 1970s small time computers were put in the hands of the people
• Libertarianism found a new home on what was the early internet
• Cheaper computers allowed the first online communities to develop - the longest surviving and also the most influential – The Well
• The well – set up in 1985 in San francisco
• Without The Well Facebook, Twitter etc may have ever existed
• Stuart Brand founder of The Well
• John Perry Barlow helped start the influential electronic frontier foundation that campaigns for freedom online – its based in beliefs he distilled in his declaration of the independence of cyberspace
• Barlow argues that self expression should have no limits and he believed that this free flow of information would confront authority
Part three:
• Ory Okolloh founder of Ushahidi
• Ushahidi allowed ordinary people to record attacks and create a minute by minute snap shot – by giving them a voice it forced Kenyan authorities to take to stem the violence
• The web and the internet are NOT the same thing
• The web is simply the links, information and web pages delivered to us over the internet
• The routes of the internet can be traced back to early 1960s in America – were military and university main frame computers were hooked together via the telephone line
• Email was born in 1965
• Common standards allowed files to be transferred between networks - however information was very difficult to find
• In 1954 twelve European countries began collaborating on a project to smash the atom and unravel the mystery of the tiny particles that form its nucleus
• Tim Berners-Lee began working there in 1980
• He submitted a paper in 1989 called Information Management: A proposal – about the idea of linking different computer systems
• On the 6th august 1981 the first site went online
Part four:
• You can publish anything without anyone’s permission
• Given away for free – Time Berners-Lee
• Bill Gates made people pay for software
• Business on the internet was band this was over turned in 1994
• In 1995 Microsoft launched internet explorer
Part five
• Shaun Fannig founder of Napster
• In 1999 Shaun released a small piece of software on the web called Napster which used file sharing to illegally download music
• In 2001 Napster was shut down
• Chad Hurley co-founder and CEO of YouTube
• YouTube posted its first video in 2005
• Arianna Huffington co-founder of Huffington post
• Huffington post –aggregation site
• In this hybrid world editors are editing and excluding opinion
Part six
• Each month we search Google more than 38 million times
• 1 in 3 of us have facebook
• Ebay gets 21 million visits per month
• Amazon 16 million
• Jimmy Wales co-founder of Wikipedia
• The web is more than a single reflection of our world instead it is an endlessly reinventing itself – it’s a space of perpetual invasion
