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20 years of the Internet in South Africa

20 years of the Internet in South Africa. Gulf War. Nintendo console. 1991. www. Telkom. First SA ping. Oceanus sinks. Bosnia. Linux. “Surfing”. 1992. Interception and Monitoring Act. co.za. CODESA. Rwanda. Adobe PDF. Mosaic. 1993. Vodacom & MTN. Internet Africa.

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20 years of the Internet in South Africa

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  1. 20 years of the Internet in South Africa

  2. Gulf War Nintendo console 1991 www Telkom First SA ping Oceanus sinks

  3. Bosnia Linux “Surfing” 1992 Interception and Monitoring Act co.za CODESA

  4. Rwanda Adobe PDF Mosaic 1993 Vodacom & MTN Internet Africa Chris Hani killed

  5. Channel Tunnel JPEG Apache 1994 SAT-2 New South Africa

  6. Barings Bank Windows 95 amazon.com 1995 Green Paper Telkom SAIX Rugby World Cup champions

  7. Dolly the Sheep DVD player AltaVista 1996 Telecoms Act ISPA African Nations Cup champions

  8. PalmPilot Hong Kong to China 1997 SATRA “Blue Paper” Truth and Reconciliation Commission

  9. Belfast Agreement Google 1998 iMac ISOC-ZA Planet Hollywood bomb

  10. Euro adopted Napster Akamai 1999 Mark Shuttleworth Thabo Mbeki president

  11. Bush vs Gore Y2K Dot com bubble 2000 TENET Mozambique floods

  12. 9/11 iPod Wikipedia 2001 SAT-3 Telecoms Act amended

  13. US invades Afghanistan Mac OS X 2002 ECT Act ADSL Solar eclipse

  14. US invades Iraq iTunes Skype 2003 Cricket World Cup

  15. Indian Ocean tsunami Ubuntu Facebook 2004 Telecoms Big Bang 3G Equatorial Guinea plot

  16. Pope John Paul dies Xbox 360 YouTube 2005 Neotel VoIP SALT

  17. Human genome published Blu-Ray player Amazon EC2 2006 Electronic Communications Act

  18. Kenya riots iPhone 1 billion Internet users 2007 SANReN Rugby World Cup champions (again)

  19. Large hadron collider Amazon Kindle Dropbox 2008 Mobile > Fixed Altech VANS judgement Xenophobia

  20. 3D TV Credit Crunch 2009 SEACOM InterplanetaryInternet

  21. Gulf oil spill iPad 2010 EASSy FIFA World Cup

  22. Arab Spring iCloud 2 billion Internet users 2011 Local Loop Unbundling Fibre broadband COP-17

  23. The Future... • The Internet of Things • Much larger than Internet of People • Mobility – The Personal Internet • Most will access through mobile devices • The Social Internet • Anonymity may be impossible • Enterprise ICT will be in the Cloud • Extending across multiple networks • The Internet will become a lot more content-aware • Good: Content Delivery Networks will make streaming predictable • Bad: Deep Packet Inspection may continue to limit user experience • Content – The Net Generation • On-demand will be much larger than broadcast; long-tail economics

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