The Internet [Technology 1998 analysis and forecast]

Author

Lange, L.

Volume

35

Issue

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

42

Abstract

The paper discusses the growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web, particularly throughout 1997. This commercial popularity has created a schism between the consumer community and those who use the Net for mission-critical operations, especially in engineering. The gulf is so wide that the move toward alternative Internets: in-house intranets, extranets tying in customers and suppliers, and even overnets, had pride of place on the networking agendas of many academic and industry organizations. The paper discusses issues such as design team collaboration, Java, groupware, multimedia, digital libraries and virtual reality applications

Keywords

Internet; business communication; groupware; multimedia systems; object-oriented languages; technological forecasting; virtual reality; Internet; Java; World Wide Web; design team collaboration; digital libraries; education; engineering; extranets; groupware; in-house intranets; industry; mission-critical operations; multimedia; overnets; technology analysis; technology forecasting; virtual reality; Collaboration; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Extranets; IP networks; Internet; Java; Mission critical systems; Technology forecasting; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Spectrum, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9235

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/6.645977

Filename

645977