I see one important future thread in the WWW having nothing to do with marketing, selling, or other commercial activities, but just the way that individuals create a persistent identity for themselves in cyberspace.
Predictor: O'Reilly, Tim
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for The Irish Times, publisher and online entrepreneur Tim O’Reilly says: ”Anyone who has an e-mail address will eventually also need a URL. [Web address] Why ship copies of information (down to the level of resumes, back-grounders, etc.) when you can just send a pointer? I see one important future thread in the WWW having nothing to do with marketing, selling, or other commercial activities, but just the way that individuals create a persistent identity for themselves in cyberspace.”
Biography:Tim O’Reilly was founder and first president of O’Reilly & Associates, a computer-book-publishing company that helped popularize the Internet in the decade of the 1990s. His Global Network Navigator site (GNN, which was sold to America Online in September 1995) was the first Web portal and one of the initial commercial sites on the World Wide Web. He received InfoWorld’s Industry Achievement Award in 1998 for his advocacy on behalf of the Open Source community. He served on the board of trustees for the Internet Society and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: May 8, 1995
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Virtual Communities
Name of publication: Irish Times
Title, headline, chapter name: Cork Express
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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