Internet Retrospective 2001

1999 Emergence of the Global Datasphere

Emergence of the Solar Datasphere
Vint Cerf is working with NASA JPL to develop an Interplanatary Channel Protocol.

2001: What we missed:

"Wireless" would often mean "celluar"
People trying to use the web on cell phones and not succeeding
2.5G, I-mode, 3G
Qualcomm's CDMA Globalstar
Bluetooth
Prediction - underated 802.11 will be ubiquitous
and celluar will provide gap coverage when moving between 802.11 sites via new hybrid devices