In the beginning there was the network (tcp-ip), and it needed to survive nuclear war.

• 1991: Timothy Berners Lee invents the World Wide Web (www) to help high energy physicists exchange data through a hyper text transfer protocol (http) on the internet.

• Marc Andreessen, Eric Bina and others invent Mosaic to make the web accessible to others in the computing community.

• Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen create Netscape and make the browser widely available.

• Bill Joy at Sun creates Java.  "Write once- run anywhere!"

• Microsoft embraces Java and then extends it.  - Fight!

• Java loses momentum on the client and becomes the defacto eBusiness standard on the server.

• XML (eXtensible Markup Language) invented to extend html

• XML poised to become the standard for interoperability and data exchange?

eBusiness: The Hope, the Hype, the Power, the Pain 

( © J.  Wilson   1999, 2000 )