An hour ago a spamming agency seems to have sent out thousands of messages from random @neosmart.net email adresses. NeoSmart Technologies was not involved in this spamming attempt (check the message headers!) and we’d like to assure everyone that we never have and we never will condone spam to come from our servers.

These messages were sent to random addresses, so whether or not you’re a member here doesn’t matter. Odds are, you won’t receive one of these emails, but we just wanted to make that all clear.

Some background on domain spoofing:

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Following our first article in the “Future of the Internet” series earlier this week, we have another story for another era. “Blending the Browser” focused on the client-side of things, how the software developers will adapt their programs to meet the needs of corporate and home users around the world. Part two of this series covers the internet protocols themselves and the impact it will have on the web as we know it.

Judging by previous trends and publications, HTTP is here to stay. As far as server-based communications are concerned, HTTP offers a very versatile and easy-to-use universal medium of communication, at decent speeds, and with relatively few draw-backs. Even if a better protocol could be implemented, it is highly doubtful that it any from-scratch implementation will ever replace HTTP simply because of how widespread it has become, and how much everything depends on it.

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Every couple of months a tech magazine will print an article about technology in the future, covering everything from wrist-watches to laptops to cable television, but no one ever discusses what the internet will be like five, ten, or fifteen years from now – because no one knows. This is the first of several articles NeoSmart Technologies is publishing regarding the internet of the future: how we’ll use it, what it’ll be like, and where it’ll go from there.

The growth and expansion of the internet and its associated programs and technologies can best be compared to that of a living species: the laws and theorems revolving around the expansion of technology provide sufficient evidence that its growth cycles can be interpreted in the same way as that of an organism – and from there we have our first glimpse at the future of the internet.

In studying the growth patterns of such a technology, it becomes apparent that the model being followed is one of heavy and very spontaneous growth fueled my innovation and necessity, followed by long periods of stabilization and standardization. The best example would be in the 1990s when the browser wars between Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.

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