Celebrating the networked world: 25 years and countin

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	Celebrating the networked world: 25 years and counting Cell phones and social media tools help topple Middle Eastern regimes. Telemedicine lets surgeons reach across time and space. Smart grids let power companies reduce fuel consumption and lower pollution. Networking has changed the world - and Network World has had a front-row seat for the last 25 years. Join us in a rich look back at the people, companies and technologies that fueled a human revolution. Read More In this Issue 25 tech touchstones of the past 25 years 25 ways IT will morph in the next 25 years Cisco's mass of acquisitions spawned growth, competition 5 innovative tech companies that got it wrong in the end Living legends of networking Living legends: Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe Living Legend: Vint Cerf on the Internet and out-of-this-world communications Living legends: Radia Perlman, Layer 3 wizard Living legends: John Cioffi, father of DSL Living Legend: Vic Hayes 82-year-old Father of the cell phone buys new smartphone every 2 months More than two decades after inventing the Web, Berners-Lee fights to keep it open Voices of networking John Chambers on the network Hot shots from the past: Paul Severino and the go-go years Front row Network World reporters reflect on their favorite moment Fun stuff Network World's cool covers The Innovation Bracket So you think you know networking? Network World's Wider Net 25 tech touchstones of the past 25 years Narrowing down the network industry's top events from the past 25 years is a little like picking your all-time baseball or football moments – something will always get left out and the second-guessers will come out of the woodwork. So what we have here is what for the moment I think are the Top 25 events that had the most influence on, or will have the most impact in the future of the industry. Read More 25 ways IT will morph in the next 25 years Imagine a world where the computers, networks and storage systems are all tens of thousands of times faster than they are today -- and then think about the sci-fi type of applications that will be possible. Read More Cisco's mass of acquisitions spawned growth, competition Cisco bought 144 companies in its rise to network dominance. This is the acquisition strategy that helped define an industry. Read More 5 innovative tech companies that got it wrong in the end Successful for a time, but failed in the end: looking back at Digital, WorldCom, Netscape, Nortel and General Magic. Read More Living legends of networking Read More Living legends: Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe When we start routinely jacking into The Matrix, won't the jack be Ethernet? Will it be an RJ-45 in your ear? Read More Living Legend: Vint Cerf on the Internet and out-of-this-world communications Vint Cerf is one of the most recognized network engineers of all time. He is often referred to as one of the "fathers of the Internet" for his groundbreaking work as a co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He shares that title with colleague Robert E. Kahn. The two have been granted many prestigious awards for helping to build a technology that has arguably altered the course of human history more than any other. Read More Living legends: Radia Perlman, Layer 3 wizard As important as Spanning Tree has been to the acceptance and spread of Ethernet, making it possible to link Ethernet segments without creating loops and packet storms, its inventor, Radia Perlman, says she always thought it was a bad idea. Read More Living legends: John Cioffi, father of DSL John Cioffi was there when Bell Labs decided in the 1970s to turn the single remaining analog part of the AT&T network - the twisted-pair copper wires that run to each customer's home - into a digital connection; 30 years later he's still at it. Read More Living Legend: Vic Hayes Vic Hayes, sometimes called the "Father of Wi-Fi," hardly fits the conventional image of a "legend." Soft-spoken on the phone, self-effacing, he's less a technological visionary and more of a problem solver. Read More 82-year-old Father of the cell phone buys new smartphone every 2 months A Q&A with Martin Cooper, the so-called "father of the cellular phone." Read More More than two decades after inventing the Web, Berners-Lee fights to keep it open A look at how the Web's inventor sees his creation more than two decades after its birth. Read More Voices of networking Read More John Chambers on the network Cisco's John Chambers: "The network is more important today than at any time in history. In the last 25 years it has had a transformative effect on the way we all live, work, learn and play, but I believe it will deliver even greater change in the next decade than it has in the last quarter century." Read More Hot shots from the past: Paul Severino and the go-go years The golden age of networking - the 1980s and 90s that saw the rise of corporate local-area networks and the Internet become woven into the gleaming ribbon of world communication - was the work of entrepreneurs. And Paul Severino, who co-founded a number of start-ups, the best-known being Wellfleet Communications -- personifies that era to the max, having ridden its ups and downs. Read More Front row Readers that have been with us from the beginning. Read More Network World reporters reflect on their favorite moment Reporters and editors talk about their favorite moment as a journalist in the technology field. Read More Fun stuff Read More Network World's cool covers Take a look through our art closet, which includes our very first issue. Read More The Innovation Bracket It is time for May Madness. OK, there might not be as much fanfare as the college basketball version of the brackets, but think of this as a second chance at redemption after all those red marks littered your NCAA picks this past March. Read More So you think you know networking? Here's a brief quiz to test knowledge of some well known, some obscure networking terms and events. Read More Network World's Wider Net Network World started its Wider Net stories in 2003 in an effort to lighten up our news pages, acknowledging that there is a lot more to the world of enterprise networking and IT other than speeds and feeds of switches and routers and WAN links. Read More
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