Internet founder: Mobile phones the future of the Internet
15 CommentsPublished February 20th, 2007 3:12 PM EST By Daniel Goldman
Vinton Cerf, the founder of the internet and current VP at Google, said today that the future growth of the Internet lays in the hands of mobile phone users, not computers.
“The Internet population has exploded from 50 million to 1.1 billion since 1997, it still only reaches a sixth of the world’s population. The only way to reach the remaining 5.5 billion people on the planet will be to make it more affordable to access the Internet.
Internet access via mobile phone has been slowly gaining momentum in developed countries. However, such mobile access could be the key to quickly getting large populations in developing countries online due of the marginal cost of a mobile phone compared to a computer.”
Opera is hard at work into making this a reality. We’re making it possible for cellphone users to browse the “full” web on their small screens, not just special mobile-created sites (WAP sites).
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That’s why I like Opera…
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mobile phones not cell phones
from Cameron Moll’s 24 ways post
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(^^Did that one go through?, lets try again)
It reminds me:
I took this photo of my Opera Mini right before I left my old work place in Switzerland and moved back to Norway for a year. I think Tim like what he see too…:)
WWW Vs. Opera Mini
- ØØ -
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I used to work there. I remember Robert Cailliau was the person that got me into Macs, and I first heard of OS X though him.
Vint Cerf – founder of the Internet
tim and Robert – founders of the web
Al Gore – inventor of the Information Super Highway
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David Storey,
Hehe…
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“Posted by David Storey using Safari 419.3 on Mac OS X”
Wow! Opera sure needs to ramp up its development.
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haha, that’s the build number. Seems the sniffer script doesn’t work correctly (even more as it gives the same build number as the release version of Safari). Brower sniffing sucks
Being up to version 419 would be impressive.
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I agree with everything that everyone has said.
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(ok…I just wanted to see the “Mac OS X” next to my post for the first time in my life… carry on folks
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It’s hard to blame the sniffer script for that, since Safari doesn’t actually provide the version number in its user-agent string — just the build number.
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Indonesian refers to mobile phone as ‘handphone’
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David, I thought Al Gore was the inventor of the Environment
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Viewing full web pages on a mobile phone sounds like a hard thing to do considering most mobile phones don’t have that much RAM.
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kabili, that’s exactly what Opera Mini is capable of doing. It is supposed to work on even the cappiest phones, even with low RAM — and still display the full page. If the page is too long/big, it breaks it up into multiple pages with a “next” button.
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Really? That’s a really ingenius way of overcoming that limitation.
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@David Storey: Totally off-topic, I know, but after trying out some Webkit nightlies, I think I’ve figured out why it’s showing the same build number as the current release version of Safari.
Safari provides two build numbers: one for the rendering engine, and one for the application. Just like Mozilla browsers provide both a Gecko build ID and a Firefox/SeaMonkey/etc. version number. Webkit nighlies appear to be using a newer rendering engine (easy to verify, since it supports features the release version doesn’t), but the same application version (or at least claiming to be).