Web Years - The Definative Answer

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For my entire life, it has been my dream to add something, anything, to the 
body of human knowledge.  I am proud to say that through careful research and 
interaction with many eminent scholars listed below I have been able to 
establish the exact meaning of the term "Web Year."  Please no prizes. 
            Thanks to everyone who helped in this research project.


Bob Skinder
R.E. Gibson Library and Information Center 
The Johns Hopkins University 
Applied Physics Laboratory
410-792-6000 ext. 4685
robert_skinder at jhuapl.edu
http://lib2.jhuapl.edu/APL/ins/ins.html
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                    One Web Year = exactly................


In the Feb. 20, 1996 issue of PC Magazine, Jim Seymour refers to Web Years
in his column (p.93).  He doesn't claim to invent the term, but his
estimate is about a one-to-ten ratio making one Web Year closer to one
month than two.

Hope this helps.
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    They're also on a different clock and calendar. What's cutting edge today 
becomes "mundane" seemingly overnight. "A Web year is 3 months," says McCue.
"No, one month," says Organic's Cliff Skolnick. "I left Sun (Microsystems) in 
April, and it feels like six or seven years ago, we've done so much."

Julius Ariail
Georgia Southern University
jariail at gasou.edu
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Not sure if any of these are the articles but they may do the trick just
the same....
take a look at....

http://pubs.iworld.com/ww-online/95Aug/op-ed/guest.html
"A web year is the unit of time it takes for a significant Internet development 
to move from concept to demonstration project to millions of desktops on the 
World Wide Web.  Compared to the normal 12 month cycle of most businesses, Web 
years are breathtakingly short and eventful."  Mary J. Cronin

http://web1.leadgroup.com/danug/21a6.htm
First, remember that 4 years here on earth is at least 20 years in cyberspace 
(20 web- years). Second, remember that if I really could predict the future, I 
would not spend my time
writing articles like this.


http://www.omega.sf.ca.us/webupdat.htm
"Not 2 1/2 months; now 2 weeks" Jay Cross

Hope this helps.

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It was in Wired, I think it was the interview with the Netscape
head geek, Marc Andreesen.  Or, if not him, someone else, but
definitely Wired in Dec, Jan, Feb, or March.  It was in response
to the interviewer's question along the lines of "aren't you
guys worried about this new Internet service being promised by
AT&T?"  The answer was no, AT&T moves in real years, not web 
years.

from Carlos McEvilly, Los Alamos
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I had mentioned figures like those in a posting here, that a year in this
technology is about 5 months in the real world.  

Not a complaint--just a reality check.
 
-marc
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