History of Networking and Services

• Networking

  • From analog voice communications to digital convergence
  • Can no longer maintain the distinction between computing and communications

• Services

  • From data processing to information processing (Vanevar Bush predicted this in 1948)
  • Interoperability essential in networked environment (big 4: URL, HTML, HTTP, MIME, + SMIL??)

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