what were the prime software drivers of the internet move from the world of academia to the world of commerce?
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Bill Gates and Microsoft.
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In one word, I think 'reality' would be the main reason.\n\nAs the fervour grew in the late 90's for tech stocks, everyone believed that the 'new paradigm' for business would change everything. Market share was more important than profits ... eyeballs more important than income ... making a huge loss was ok if there were profits forecasted for the future ... any business doing anything online was 'exciting' ... etc etc.\n\nThen reality started to dawn on investors, venture capitalists, business owners and managers that the old ways of business needed to apply to the web. The internet was and is not immune. \n\nHuge speculation is just that. Huge speculation. The massive market valuations were based on many strange ideas and the companies could not operate in the way that the market needed - profitably.\n\nI believe that reality arrived.
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globalization\nOperating around the world. Although many large companies have globalized for decades, the Web, more than any other phenomenon, has enabled the smallest company to have a global presence.
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Web technologies - J2EE & .Net
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In terms of market share, unfortunately, Microsoft Windows.\nPopular in terms of enthusiastic happy users, Apple's Mac OS's.\nBut popular in the business world, Unix and it's derivatives, not easy to learn or use for us non-uber-geeky-people.
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Surely thats a Rhetorical question? You should know which careers by now or why else would you be doing a degree in E-Commerce systems? Sorry!! but its too obvious a question.
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In the mid 90s, when the internet became a common household electronic, many start up businesses tried to capitalize on the mass market audience. Millions of dollars were poured into start up internet companies. Yet since the technology was new to the general public, and some were wary about shopping on line with credit cards, many of those start ups went bust. The internet boom fizzled in 2000. Since then it has gained momentum again.\n\nAlso one problem with the internet during the 90s was slow modems. AOL was the number one internet provider. And there modem was very slow, 56K. That's a snail's pace. When cable and telephone companies started to enter the market, they brought along fiber optic cables, which is 100 times faster than the 56K modem. This pleased the mass market and the internet started to grow again.
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I would say Tim Berners Lee, who basically invented the World Wide Web.  He also created the first web browser and currently directs the World Wide Web Consortium.
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The Internet is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web. The Internet was named as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2006.\n\nContrary to some common usage, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not synonymous: the Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks, linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, etc.; the Web is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs. The World Wide Web is accessible via the Internet, as are many other services including e-mail, file sharing, and others
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Gather as much info on current technologies and keep a track on latest trends in softwares\n\nBe as innovative as you can , Google/ microsoft/ sabeer bhatia / all became rich in a sharp curve because of austounding  innovative ideas.\n\nA Bachelors degree / Masters degree with internship would help you much.\n\nWhile in school try being a webmaster/ TA/ Network Admin...
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scot trade?? ecomerce??? I saw the commercial for ecomerce.. pretty cooll... it was the one with the guy and he's king of his domain... lol
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Skills for Web 2,0 based technologies are in demand &\nlegacy builts/applications are being reengineered. Get to do some freelance projects and get adequate skills here : www.oDesk.com
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Information technology, in particular, Software design...think of things like video games and programs.  They just released a list recently...either in Money, Fortune or Forbes...of the best occupations now and in the near future.
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ARPANET, the "Mother of the Internet,"  began as a U.S. government experiment linking researchers with remote computer centers to allow them to share hardware and software resources.\n\nI hope this helps!\n\n--Stacey
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We shouldn't confuse "Internet" with "World Wide Web". A project of a far-reaching network of computers that was probably started in the late 60's/early 70's by the Department of Defense could be construed to be the dawning of the Internet. However, the "World Wide Web" was started around 1990 by C.E.R.N. in Geneva, Switzerland. It was used as a global network between scientist to trade ideas and research results.
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No one person invented the Internet as we know it today. However, certain major figures contributed major breakthroughs:\n\n(1) Leonard Kleinrock was the first to publish a paper about the idea of packet switching, which is essential to the Internet. He did so in 1961.\n\n(2) J.C.R. Licklider was the first to describe an Internet-like worldwide network of computers, in 1962. He called it the "Galactic Network."\n\n(3) Larry G. Roberts created the first functioning long-distance computer networks in 1965 and designed the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the seed from which the modern Internet grew, in 1966.\n\n(4) Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) which moves data on the modern Internet, in 1972 and 1973.\n\n(5) By 1983, TCP was the standard and ARPANET began to resemble the modern Internet in many respects. The ARPANET itself was taken out of commission in 1990. Most restrictions on commercial Internet traffic ended in 1991, with the last limitations removed in 1995. NCSA Mosaic web browser also came out in 1993, the first browser that supported both text and graphics.\n\nFor an excellent article on history and evolution of the Internet, refer to the following links:\nhttp://www.isoc.org/internet/history/\nhttp://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml\n\nOn the lighter side, as popularly said, 'Al Gore' invented the internet. That's not the truth. Refer to http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AjD6K1uz8OfCRUVj37IHU_YjzKIX?qid=1005121801557 to get an insight on this issue.
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Web 2.0\nAn umbrella term for the second wave of the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 implies an information and computing platform rather than a content storehouse. Sometimes called the "New Internet," Web 2.0 promotes thin client computing, where everything is stored on servers (on the Web), and a user has access from any laptop or desktop computer via a Web browser. Client applications that do not require the browser can also be downloaded at any time from the Web.\n\n\nThe Social Phenomenon\n\nWeb 2.0 also implies a Web-centric source for all information and entertainment, including news, weather, stocks, reference, podcasts, videos and streaming media. Blogs, Wikis and online communities such as Friendster are also part of the second wave of the Web.\n\n\nWeb Evolution\n\nIn the mid-1990s, the Web began (Web 1.0) as a repository of information and static content. Within a couple years, a huge amount of content was dynamic, returning custom results to users. By the turn of the century, the Web became more interactive (Web 1.5), allowing users to play, stop, rewind and fast forward through audio and video content. In the discussion of Web 2.0, the 1.0 and 1.5 generation labels are sometimes used, but they are not rigidly defined.\n\n\nWhat Enabled Web 2.0?\n\nBandwidth and power. Faster in many cases than the T1 lines in the enterprise, cable and DSL hookups have given high-speed connections to small businesses and home offices. In addition, the entry level computer has gotten powerful enough to execute JavaScript and Java code in an HTML page without noticeable delays. The combination of increased bandwidth and local processing power, as well as increased server power and refinements in server applications, make the Web an extension of the user's computer just as if it were connected to the local network (LAN).