I believe the Web will represent a half of all Internet traffic by the beginning of 1996 because it is the easiest and preferred way of presenting information, either for free or for sale.
Predictor: Krauskopf, Tim
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for New Scientist, Joe Flower quotes Tim Krauskopf, a vice president with the technology firm Spyglass. Flower writes: ”Most of the new ways of using the Internet are hogs for bandwidth and memory. The World Wide Web, for example, has grown like an arachnophobe’s nightmare. This protocol allows people with Web browser software to receive information in graphic form (test, tables, charts, pictures, and even audio and video clips) from tens of thousands of sites around the world. Virtually unheard of two years ago, by the beginning of 1995 it had grown to 14 percent of the total traffic on the Internet. And this is only the start. ‘I believe the Web will represent a half of all Internet traffic by the beginning of 1996 because it is the easiest and preferred way of presenting information, either for free or for sale,’ says Tim Krauskopf, vice president of research and development at Spyglass, the company that developed the Enhanced Mosaic Web browser.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: New Scientist
Title, headline, chapter name: Idiot’s Guide to the Net: From Boston’s Cyberbars to Siena’s Schoolrooms, Some of the Frequently Asked Questions About the Network that Connects Us All
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 2222
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney