Join us for the first of two Richard Campbell presentations. The Past and Future on Monday and BC.NET at BCIT on Wednesday. Register for both, you won't regret it: https://www.meetup.com/NET-User-Group-of-BC/events/266450143/
The Internet existed before the Web, but the Web redefined the Internet - what started out as a protocol for helping scientists share documents and references has turned into one of the most important forces in the 21st century. But how did we get here? Join Richard Campbell as he tells the story of the World Wide Web and the web development tools and techniques that made it all possible. From the early versions of HTML where you laid out web pages with tables (GeoCities anyone?) and simple scripting languages to CSS, JavaScript and HTML 5, leading to Single Page Applications, Progressive Web Apps and Web Assembly! We've come a long way, and the story is continuing!
Speaker: Richard Campbell
Richard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry both on the hardware and software sides, development and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013 and was on the board of directors of Telerik which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Today he is a consultant and advisor to a number of successful technology firms and is the founder and chairman of Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org (http://www.htbox.org/)), a public charity that builds open source software for disaster relief. Richard is also the host of two podcasts: .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com (http://www.dotnetrocks.com/)) which publishes three shows a week to .NET developers and RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com (http://www.runasradio.com/)) which is a weekly show for IT Professionals. You can reach Richard at [masked].