CONVERGENCE: 2008-Now

SocialMedia : Facebook … for the Enterprise; “user experience” goes viral; Presentation platforms are ubiquitous, scalable , and responsive; Applications are seamless

The Web Gets Down to BUSINESS: 2000-2007

Highly transactional services on the Web: Financial markets, portals, workflow, dashboards, personas, direct marketing

TRANSITIONAL Surge: 1990-1999

Pioneering online business applications, Early Web, transitional technologies: Hypercard, Visual Basic, Lotus Notes

BEFORE We Called It the WEB: 1981-1989

“The First Wave” of graphical interactive online services: Videotex, Cabletext, Teletext,Videodisks, Electronic Signage

New SYNTHESIS: 1970-1980

The New Media Emerges: Video, community cable, dance, documentaries, arts programming, news research, advocacy, animation, commercial art

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