Web of the Future

After-school seminar by Anu Vedantham

The sites we visited showed the progression of the web over the last 7 years, and some new and exciting additions. Please note that some of these sites cannot be viewed without the appropriate plug-in program.
The Web began with plain text like this page on Authentic Pedagogy
Then we saw the first cartoons and clickable image maps like those atWelcome to the White House for Kids
and some photographs like those at High Desert Photo Journal
Soon, we demanded animated graphics and Internet greeting cards like Blue Mountain Greeting Cards
and changing photographs like those at Richard Stockton College
vast databases online like those at New Jersey's Job Search and U.S. Census Bureau
Of course nothing compares to the great works of art at the WebMuseum
or the live cameras from across the globe at The Ultimate Camera Page
Then came the era of plug-ins.
Let us begin with Shockwave - After you install the plug-in, you might visit Gabocorp Imaging and Macromedia ShockRave for examples of what this animation medium can accomplish.
Live TV and Live Radio on the Internet can be seen through Microsoft NetShow and through RealMedia. After you install the plug-in, you might visit the RealSystem Showcase and the Fox Sports SW Video Broadcast. Live radio stations from all across the world can be heard through The Broadcast Network on the Internet
The future of computing can be glimpsed through some of the following sites: (I see much more emerging along these lines in coming years)
The Rockettes: 10-Gram Microrovers for Mars - micro robots
The SodaBot Home Page - intelligent agents
Virtual Worlds Demonstrations - control this robot over the web!
AI Lab Server - Can my web search engine learn to speak plain English?
Kidlinks - Look at a website in many languages
Suggestions for exciting sites to add to the list above? Send me mail at Anu.Vedantham@stockton.edu