Well, I've given up on trying to keep this page updated, seeing as how there are people now getting paid to do what I attempted here as the field grows exponentially. Perhaps this site will be of use to Internet historians or something. In any case, I have provided links under the read about it section that will send you to similar pages that actually are up-to-date, so this page does serve some function. One important new site dealing with browser plug-in's is CNET's http://www.browsers.com/.
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For a rundown of technologies from the Demo 96 show not yet added
or briefly mentioned here, check out this from zdnet.
NetWatch
is a weekly newsletter about net technology. They also have a mailing list, RealAudio, and
a virtual community. Look for closer ties with these awesome folks in the future.
Misc.
A protocol has been devised for the delivery of real-time stuff called RTP. "RTP is a thin protocol providing
support for applications with real-time properties,
including timing reconstruction, loss detection, security and content identification. RTCP
provides support for real-time conferencing for large groups within an internet, including
source identification and support for gateways (like audio and video bridges) and
multicast-to-unicast translators. RTP can be used without RTCP if desired."
For a look at various drafts being developed by the IETF with relevance for net technology
such
as RSVP, check out this
page.
Software
Virtual Reality Modeling Language is a technology that allows
you to
navigate the web in 3d using a product called WebSpace. You can use your mouse to walk
around and click on objects. The rendering is all done at the user's computer. Check out Silicon Graphics for more
information. Another
company has produced a program called i3d (SG workstations only) that supports VRML
plus a proprietary format. Yet another VR web
option is called WIRL (web interactive reality layer). A new plug-in
version of this software has just been released. Don't you just love competing standards? Mecklerweb has a weekly e-pub called VRML
World. See reading. Also, a good VR surfing starting point is here. VRML+ from Worlds, Inc. allows avatars to walk around in a VRML environment.
VRML is also being used to model data. HomeSpace is a cool VRML
creation tool. Paper's VRML browser acts as a page in
Netscape so it doesn't appear to open a seperate app. Features in an upcoming version will
include VRML avatar chat via IRC. Mac, and much more are due soon. This is definitely a
company to watch. VR Scout looks like a pretty
good browser, offering cool features and speed.A standard called moving worlds has
been agreed to by 50 Internet leaders, enhancing VRML 2.0 for animated 3d on the net.
QuickTime VR from Apple has recieved a strong push recently
on the
Internet. The software is Mac only currently. Users can navigate scenes, zoom, try different view
points, interact with objects. There have been many VR files released on the web in conjunction
with the software. Find out more at Apple. The
Windows version of the software is now available.
Other VR tools is Virtual Reality Explorer. Superscape has a program called
Visualiser for VR environments as well.
3D software has been released by Apple under the name QuickDraw 3d. Apple has
announced plans for a 3d metafile, which includes qd3d and vrml
2.0. The browser works also with VRML. Another piece of 3d
software allows 3d buttons and animation on a web page.
Applications are going to become available on the web. HotJava allows you to download small programs called applets
over the net and run them on your computer, opening the way for strange new forms of
interactivity (and viruses). You can read all about it at Sun
Microsystems. A new developer's kit for Java was recently released. Watch for Sun to
continue making waves. ScriptX is a scripting language
so you can download applets to work with a program from them for Mac and Windows.WebObjects from NeXT will
allow users to download web-based applications as well. WebApp is yet another
competitor in this field. In applet news, some guy is trying to
patent these. Kaleida, that big corporate alliance gone awry, still
offers ScriptX and Kaleida
Multimedia Player, which hope to transcend platforms in offering interactive multimedia.
IBM is now offering something called OpenDoc which allows for modular
programming, perhaps opening the way for apps over the net. OpenSpace is a new
technology based on resuable software components that enables the transmission of
mini-applications via the net. Excite's NCompass combines HTML with OLE for
applications via the net.
Chatting takes a step foward with CompuServe. Another company has produced a program
for chatting via the web called global chat. You can chat with people on a web site using UgaliChat. Ubique's software allows users to exchange audio and
video and chat anywhere. People can talk and travel around the net in groups. Pretty cool, but
you have to pay to keep using it. WebChat from the Internet Round Table
Society is worth check out as well. No client is needed and their technology is innovative. TeleTalk and CineVideo allow full video teleconferencing over
the net provided you have the hardware and a WorldGroup BBS to connect to. Yet another
no-special-software option comes to us from a Virtual Yellow Pages Company, Internet Marketing Services. Netscape has released a program called Chat that is like
PowWow over IRC along with incorporation of graphics and such. World's Inc has also started
something called Alpha World, which is an
improvement over their previous chat software, allowing you to exist is a sort of virtual town.
Another web-based chat environment is TheGathering.
(see also Immersion, under sites and Audio and Video,
below)
Audio over the Internet no longer requires a T-1 line or lots of
downloading time. VocalTec's iphone allows you
to have phone-like conversations with anyone in the world using IRC, a sound card, and this
software. RealAudio's RealAudio software allows
you to listen to low-quality audio in real-time rather than waiting for the download. You can
even mulit-task if you don't mind starts and stops in the audio. DON'T try to listen to music,
your ears will suffer. RealAudio now supports live audio feeds.
RealAudio 2.0 is now available, offering better performance and features. Another entrant in the
field is True Speech, which uses amazing
compression ratios to transmit (live) audio over the net. Their browser runs without Netscape,
supporting it's own bookmarks. Its scales to a variety of bandwidths, even my pathetic 14.4. If
you're using a Mac, you might want to check out Maven,
which incorporates a variety of protocols for voice communication. Yahoo has
a list of some more Internet Voice chat options that are platform-specific.Voyager's CDLink has been making waves
because it can control audio CD's, so you don't need to transfer audio over the net. Used for
multimedia liner notes, SPIN magazine, and more. ToolVox is a suite of audio tools including potential 50:1
compression that could be used over the net. Digiphone is yet another voice chat
program - the initial reports aren't that great but they're working hard over at Camelot. (My
apologies about having some voice chat under audio and some under chat.) Quarterdeck will be releasing various new Internet apps,
including a WebPhone voice chat product. IWave from Vocaltec, the Iphone people, will compete with
RealAudio. Digitalk is yet another method of
speech compression. The voice chat arena is becoming crowded.
Itelco now offers WebPhone. Silversoft now offers Softfone. Telescape offers TS Internet Voice, which allows audio chat as well as
data transission. There is also a product called CyberPhone. Another competitor is SpeakFree for Windows. One really
neat development, however, is the Free World
Dialup, right here at pulver. This links net phone products to real phone systems so you can
make a regular phone call anywhere from your computer. Crescendo allows for background
music on web pages. Netspeak now offers a WebPhone.
Electronic cash is a technology allowing commerce on the net
via
cybermoney. One such system is Digicash, which gives you 100 free
cyberbucks for registering. You can read stuff at HotWired using these bucks. You can gamble with 'em,
too. Clickshare is another
electronic payment system. FreeTel also offers Internet phone software.
The appearence of a document varies from browser to browser,
but Adobe Systems has attempted to
create a standard for documents so they look just like they would on paper. Their free Acrobat
software views .pdf (portable document format) documents as they were intended to be seen.
Arcrobat 2.1 has been released, incorporating lots of hot new features such as multimedia and
web integration. Watch for a new version of Acrobate called Amber which promises even more
document features. It is used by The New
York TimesFax service. Another method of controlling document appearence is SGML.
Find out more from SoftQuad, makers
of Panorama SGML software. Adobe is giving out free CD-ROM's with the Acrobat software if
you call 1-800-521-1976 ex. GA859. Call before this offer ends!
Another method is Common Ground.
Click here to read about HTML++.
Novell is also getting into the
electronic document biz with Envoy. Also, Pythia is a browser
that offers lots of cool document features. Electronic Book
Technologies has released a program called DynaText that is an major enhancement of
SGML. They also make a graphics viewer called FigLeaf. Bitstream's
TrueDoc helps resolve the problem of
transmitting fonts that allow for portable documents. Check out Texture, a Java-based web-authoring tool,
that allows delivery of totally controlled visually appealing documents. 
Another option is web style sheets.
Keeping track of stuff on the net is getting easier. New software
now
organizes links in tree- or Macfinder- like formats. One of these programs is Emissary. The Quarterdeck Internet Suite provides a similar tree and object
organization sturucture as well as seamless integration. Netscape has also released an add-on from FirstFloor called SmartMarks that lets you organize your
links using drag-n-drop. ForeFront's GrabNet
URL organizer has also been getting rave reviews. Mariner's browser supports off-line browsing, a File
Manager-like link collection, and integrated e-mail, etc. One cool new
tool is Isys's HindSite, which lets you keep track
of web pages you have already visited and do text searches of them. This is very helpful in case
you didn't bookmark something. WebArranger offers a
host of cool features, including watching sites for changes, managing, and saving URL's.
Unfortunately, it is only for Mac, as is CyberFinder which lets you keep your
bookmarks in Finder. The Eastgate WebSquirrel lets you make farms of links - for
the mac. Smartbrowser
has a program called HistoryTree, which is like HindSight, but with some other features, such as
a tree structure. Sextant Pro is a pretty nice
program for keeping track of bookmarks. It's a lot easier to do things like rename. Hot
key features for going to pages and sending passwords also add to this program.
Security of transactions may not be all that exciting, but it is
important
to Internet commerce and personal security. Find out about Netscape's Secure Courier and about RSA's e-mail security. Verisign is like an Internet driver's license.
Posting messages on web pages offers a lot of potential that
Usenet
does not. C/net shows one neat idea, though it is very
slow and doesn't work that well.
Automation of on-line sessions advances with a program called
AutoWinNet. It speeds up just about everything
except IRC.
Multimedia over the net may be witnessing a new standard. Macromedia's Director, included in Netscape's commercial
Navigator version, is receiving a lot of support despite the current lack of bandwidth to send
anything substantial (a problem also plauging HotJava). The actual helper app is called Shockwave. ASAP WebShow
allows for easy transmission of presentations with graphics elements using Intelligent Formatting
technology.
Surf the web as a group using PowWow, and voice chat at the same time. These people
have a pretty cool site, too. Virtual Places lets you
do the same thing, except that you have a designated leader who will lead you from site to site.
(See also Netscape's Chat under chatting.)
Video (you knew it would happen eventually) compression and
server
schemes are now neing developed. Digigami has a
program called CineWeb for compressing MPEG. Xingtech has a live/on-demand audio/video server called
StreamWorks. Xing's Technology is being used by CI$.Cu-SeeMe is the original method for Internet video. A
better version of the old CU can be read about here. NBC claims to be working on
software that will deliver video over a 14.4 link. Nothing really concrete as of yet. Also check
out Vdolive. FreeVue offers the ability watch video feeds and have
video chat. It claims 10fps at 28.8 and works on names over their network, rather than IP. PreVU allows you to
view MPEG videos while they download on the web, rather than waiting for the transfer to
complete. Heuris also has a
program that allows streaming MPEG. The Acoustic
line of products offers real-time compressed audio-video.
Graphics are being compressed in exiciting new ways. Find out
about
ART, used by on-line services and coming to the web.
There is also a movement towards changing from GIF to Portable Network Graphics (PNG).
Read about it here. Corel has introduced a
plug-in to view vector graphics, Corel CMX files, over the net, smaller than the current raster
standards. EBT's Fig
Leaf plug-in will support a variety of graphics formats, including vector CGM, TIFF, EPS,
TG4, G4, BMP, WMF, PPM, PGM, SUN, GIF, and JPEG. Shockwave for
FreeHand is a new vector graphics standard that will display via a plug in and support
zooming, text, and various other features. A new compression for raster graphics called Lightning Strike is supposed to beat
JPEG by using wavelet technology. Digital Frontiers has a GIF compression program for
the web, as well as a well-done set of Web Graphics links. Astound Web Player.
Totally Hip's Sizzler is a new plug-in that offers
animation as well. Find out how to make animated GIF files, thanks to
the latest GIF standard. A cool and easy way to add animation to a web page here. Also, check out fast animation,
using vector-based graphics, from FutureWave called SmartSketch. Also check out Emblaze, which is
supposed to offer real-time full-screen animation with their client.
Data transmission alternative protocols are now being created.
One is
Asynchronous Link Protocol. It allows all sorts of interaction between users.
Find out about ALP.
Dynamic HTML allows a web site to incorporate various forms
of
data, such as being personalized to a given user. Originally done through simple scripts,
companies are now producing special software to do this. (Of course this requires those
annoying passwords, at least until automatic recognition of static IP addresses is implemented.)
W3 has one method for generating dynamic HTML for a
registered user. WebBase allows database
data to be incorporated into HTML. Rweb
also allows for database incorporation.
Password tracking for dynamic sties can be a pain. WebWatch will keep track of your passwords and will also
watch your favorite sites for updates.
File transfers are changing from plain old FTP. There's also FSP, which
offers some improvements.
Groupware is an emerging category of net apps allowing people
to
conference over the net. Although such products can be found in other categories, some new
examples are Lotus's Internotes and Intel's ProShare conferencing.
The list of software supporting the Internet is growing. Some of those with the strongest
new integration are LotusNotes and Microsoft's Windows 95. Lotus's cc:mail now sports a web interface. ForeFront Group
is looking like a company to watch, adding to their suite RoundTable, which offers a wide variety of appealing
software with their free client and server. A new program called PictureTalk allows users to chat and share images in
realtime. A new program called TalkShow allows editing of documents
by groups of people on the web. Caucus from ScreenPorch allows a highly
customizable multimedia conference center to be created on the web.
(see also Chat, Whiteboard, Audio, Video, Immersion)
Interfaces for the various text based areas on the net keep getting
better. Check out ichat. It includes support for linking
and graphics.
Whiteboards in cyberspace let people communicate via a
whiteboard.
Very cool. Check out Wanvas
for Winsock. Internet
Conference is a whiteboard product that also supports OLE and the Internet Phone API.
Integration of these technologies into
the
browser and HTML has been moving foward. In addition to Netscape plug-ins, there is also JavaScript. It allows the launching of events when something is clicked or when entering and leaving a
document.
Offline browsing is a new arena for
technology. Check out PointCast, Digital Delivery, FirstFloor, ForeFront Group (see saving), and Freeloader. Also check out Milktruck. DocuMagix
HotPage allows a user to save pages locally and manage and inertact with them.
Maps might not seem like a big deal,
but the
Argusmap software is actually very neat. It
incorporates vector based graphics and is a very powerful tool technologically.
Saving web page is virtually
impossible.
Normally one would have to save each graphic seperately. Forefront's WebWhacker resolves this problem, offering the
ability to save a complete web page easily.
Spreadsheets can now be viewed on
the web thanks to Formula One/Net.
Browsers form the root of all this technology. To keep on eye
on the
latest browsers, check out Browserwatch.
Where proud athletes proclaim, "I'm going to Disneyland" now
proud Internet software developers (who are also slick deal-makers) can proclaim "I'm going to
be in Netscape". Software now holding this dubious
honor are Apple's QuickTime and QuickTime VR, Sun's Java, Adobe's Acrobat, Macromedia's
director, and Progressive Network's Real Audio. Look for ART to join this list soon. Collabra
has been taken over by Netscape. It's groupware technology will be incorporated into future
versions. Also, Netscape
2.0 with advancements in various areas is out. Also worth noting is what software will be
incorporated into Microsoft's browser.
Microsoft itself is working on an extensive Net strategy. Watch for
developments at the URL above.
Hardware
A chart from PC World May 1996 comparing Connection
Options
| | Recieve speed
(kbps) | Send Speed
(kbps) | Availability | Approx. cost
(hardware/setup + service) |
| modem | 28.8 | 28.8 | now | $200 to $350 + $20/month |
| ISDN | 128.0 | 128.0 | now | $580 + $40/month |
| satellite | 400.0 | 28.8 | now | $1150 + $30/month |
| T1 line | 1540.0 | 1540.0 | now | $2000 + >$185/month |
| ASDL | 6000.0 | 640.0 | 2 to 3 years
| $300 to $500 + $30/month |
| cable | 500.0
(30 mbps/60 users) | 128.0 | 2 to 3 years | $300 to $500 + $30/month |
|
Check out this page for good
info about the various hibandwidth developments.
The MBone is a virtual backbone that allows realtime
multicasting
over the Internet. Find out more here.
Cable modems offer 1,000 times current speeds. Read all about
it at
Intel. They're due out next
year. @home is one collaboration working on this new
technology. @Home recently signed a deal with Netscape. Time Warner did a trial of this
technology starting in late July in Elmira, N.Y. For 25 dollars people could access the Internet,
America Online, Compuserve, local information, and Time's editorial content. Modems from
Zenith were used. For the people who read my article in San Diego's ComputorEdge
magazine, I was recently informed that Cox Cable conducted a cable modem experiment, but that
various problems resulted, in part because of lack of knowledge among the people at Cox.
Check out this page for the latest
info.
Television with net content could also be an option. Intercast is working hard on the transmission of HTML
content related to TV shows around the television brodcast signal of TV stations. The video
would be viewed in a window on screen while the user uses a browser to look at content
transmitted via the TV method as well as on the net itself.
Wireless Internet could be the wave of the future. One
company
getting in to the act is Metricom.
Along those lines, we may seeing TV's that are net-enabled. Here's an excerpt from edupage:
ORACLE PLANS "WEB TV"
Oracle Corp. is developing a low-cost network computer designed to download
video content from the Internet. Dubbed "Web TV," the $500 device "will
video-enable the Internet," says CEO Larry Ellison, who sees education and
electronic commerce as potentially strong markets. "Movies-on-demand for
interactive TV doesn't make sense either culturally, or economically. But
this critical new technology of video-conferencing does, and so does
news-on-demand, financial news. That's worth updating." (Investor's
Business Daily 6 Oct 95 A3)
Satellites could very well be an alternative transmission method.
Newsweek , in it's Cyberscope section, hinted at the potential for Internet via the DSS
system. Check out Direcpc for more info.
AT&T's Paradyne has been promising some hot new hardware.
Here's
a sample, but there is no web site for it that I know of. AT&T Paradyne Technology
Promises Two-Way Video Over A Single, Copper Phone
Line
(21 Sep 95) AT&T Bell Laboratories and AT&T Paradyne said they have developed a new
application for the GlobeSpan chip set that is the first single line solution to transmit
simultaneous
voice and data at a range of speeds up to T1 and E1 (1.544 Mbps to 2.048 Mbps) in both
directions. AT&T Paradynec calls it SDSL (symmetric-digital-subscriber-line) technology.
Bi-directional speeds for GlobeSpan SDSL will range from 128 Kbps to E1 when it becomes
available in December 1995. Service providers may use SDSL for access to multiple data
services, including fractional T1/E1, X.25, frame relay, Internet access and ISDN, the company
said. Projected transmission distances will reach more than 17,000 feet (5.1 kilometers) at 384
Kbps, including standard telephone service on the same phone line. AT&T Paradyne said the
GlobeSpan chip set enables one common hardware platform to support SDSL, ADSL
(asymmetric-digital-subscriber-line), and HDSL (high-bit-rate, digital subscriber line)
applications. "This technology will allow worldwide phone companies to make the information
superhighway as universally accessible as today's telephone, radio and TV services," said
AT&T Paradyne director of business development, Clete Gardenhour. "SDSL will enable
anyone with telephone line, a telephone and a computer or television to access new services,
while simultaneously conducting a phone conversation on the same phone line." AT&T
Paradyne is based in Largo, FL.
A company called Westell says they have a technology called Asymmetric Digital
Subscriber Line that allows high speeds over standard copper lines. A company called Pair Gain is also using ASDL with High-bit-rate Digital
Subscriber Line (HDSL). They will roll out their own set of special modems as well.
Special peripherals for chat and so on are being developed.
Check out
Sound Xchange conference phone. QuickCam could be useful in video chats.
Sites
Searching multiple engines is a big
thing.
One nice tool for this is SavvySearch.
Organizing web sites so that you can find them
is the goal of various sites. To get a rundown of various schemes, check out
this page.
Immersion is a hot buzzword right
now. The
idea of creating a "virtual presence" combining both software and content is big. In addition to
Worlds, Inc. AlphaWorld, many competitors have
shown up. QuickTime Live from Apple combines various
technologies (QuickTime, QuickTimeVR, Prospero's Global Chat, and CUSeeMe)with big
entertainment events to deliver virtual experiences. The first of these will be to celebrate the
New Year. The Palace from Time-Warner looks pretty
cool. Using their own software, they use avatars along the lines of AlphaWorld, except the
virtual cities are established by people on there own servers, reducing load, increasing speed.
Another competitor is Silicon Graphics' Cosmo, which is described as "The first
integrated, real-time,lightweight runtime system for audio, video, 2D and 3D graphics, images,
animation, and text for the WWW." Yet another attempt at immersion is KMI's Stadium. It combines guests and audience
participation with real audio and java. Another participant is Interspace which also seeks to build a virtual city with
avatars, etc. Also check out Otherrealms fore more
of the same. Sony also is working on a
virtual interaction environment, using VRML+. Onlive is also developing a 3d chat environment.
Interaction may soon be taken to the next level. The 1996 Virtual World's Fair promises to
be an exciting experience.
Education is also benefitting from new technology. Check out
West.
Finding new sites you didn't know you needed just got easier
with the
bizarre Information Supercollider
which generates random web pages from a huge database of document fragments. Some of the
links you get can be interesting. Even better than URouLette. WebHound takes
information about the sites you like and guesses what sites that you haven't visited will be to
your liking and actually "suggests" them. Here's a list of some intelligent agents that
find stuff for you, like webhound.
Radio of a sorts has arrived on the net. No longer limited to just
listening, people can take part in web-based talk radio Fridays at 1 PM Eastern at WebBeat. It's a lot of reading and a bit verbose,
lacking the fast pace of real talk. If they can find a way to incorporate audio in both directions, it
would rock. Here's a list of
RealAudio sites, including some radio services.
Gaming was once limited to telnet but is now making a strong
showing on the web thanks to dynamic documents. Two sites to check out are Time's Roman
Empire thing and Stellar Conquest.
Gaming may be taken to the next level by Mpath which
hopes to provide interactive arcade gaming via the net. They have already formed an agreement
with Apogee. Outland has some cool games to play via
the Net as well.
Buying isn't exactly new, but buying movie tickets on-line is pretty nifty. Now if I only we
could get groceries this way...
Cybertown is implementing new technologies as well as
exploring the
virtual location metaphor. Why not start at the Virtual Drums?
Education has been aided by the advent of the Internet. Here is
one such site.
Banks are coming on to the net. Take a look at the first.
Reading about it
You can read about new tech yourself by checking out these sites.
IBM's Other Voices offers viewpoints on computers and society.
Newslinx offers daily web news.
Hotwired has some excellent resources regarding web tools at its Webmonkey and Packet sections.
Tech Talk News rounds up news from various sources. If you're interested at all in the Net, you should subscribe to their mailing list.
Netscape Inbox Direct sounds interesting, might want to try it out.
Netscape's own comprehensive plug-in's page
Here is a guide to web multimedia
Web News Now from Newspage
Smartbrowser, which makes the very useful History Tree, has a page that is an interesting idea. Users submit ideas for making the web better. It would be cool if it were updated after May 28. I'll pick up the torch if you send me ideas. Here's the page. Here is how you mail me ([email protected])
The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Shareware also has a nice collection of helper app stuff
Web.Reference is a nice web news resource also.
You might also want to check out the unglamorous SPC Internet News.
PCWorld has some nice Internet coverage. For links
related to this page, check out their Internet User
section's directories of plug-ins's and internet tools.
Digital Pulse
New York Times Computer
News
MecklerWeb
SimbaNet
Suck
The Netly News
Ziff-Davis Internet Life
C|net
Edupage
WebReview is dead now, and we mourn its loss. But the cool Web Addict columnist left us a diatribe to remember him by.
Digital Culture
NetWatch
C|net has a pretty good article on
certain helper applications in depth, as well as voice chat, Internet Radio, Plug-in's, and Offline browsing .
C|net has launced news.com as a comprehensive tech/net news site.
Internet World has a nice list of plug-ins and other browser information.
Lingo
API: An interface so programs can talk to and use each other
OLE: Object Linking and Embedding, supports various objects like text and graphics to
be contained withing documents
vector: Rather than storing data for each pixel, vector graphics store information about
the shapes that make up the drawing. This allows for smaller files with the ability to zoom
without loss of quality.
When taking a look at competiting standards, it's important to remember the best doesn't always
win. Just take a look at Beta/VHS. For a computer-related example, read about the Dvorak
keyboard. Easier to learn, easier to type faster, beaten by the already popular QWERTY. Read
about it here.
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