Visual communication and the web
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The document discusses the history and evolution of the internet and world wide web. It provides background on early computer networks in the 1970s, the development of the web by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991, the creation of popular early websites and services like Yahoo, Wikipedia, and search engines like Google. It also examines the shift to a more participatory "Web 2.0" model where people can create and share content online.
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Visual communication and the web
- 1. “When I took office only physicists had ever heard of the web. Now, even my cat has its own page.” Bill Clinton, 1946– Politician, Author, Humanitarian
- 2. Prepared by Danielle Oser, APR
- 4. Thomas L. Friedman New York Times columnist
- 5. When a brand name/NOUN also becomes a VERB there’s a cultural phenomenon going on
- 6. Google was created by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The two creators of Google attended, but did not graduate from Stanford University.
- 7. The name for Google originated from the mathematical term googol
- 9. The Google search engine makes money by selling advertisements and software
- 12. The science fiction writer who coined the phrase cyberspace was William Gibson.
- 13. Global -Thousands of computer networks - No one owns the Internet Fastest growing medium - Shaped by the relationships of its users Completely different from traditional mass media- Delivers all types of media - print, broadcast, movies, and recordings - using a single delivery system without barriers. Combination of thousands of computer networks sending and receiving data from all over the world, competing interests joined by a common purpose but with no common owner.
- 14. The term to describe the fact that all media of presentations rely on computer technology to some degree is called convergence.
- 17. Television-based World's First Teletext Information Service
- 18. An interactive videotex system developed during the late 1970s and commercially launched in 1979. It achieved a maximum of 90,000 subscribers in the UK
- 19. Videotex online service accessible through telephone lines, and is considered one of the world's most successful pre-World Wide Web online services.
- 20. Online Service Offered By Knight-Ridder And AT&T From 1983 To 1986 Intended To Be "The McDonald's Of Videotex"
- 22. Lands Of Stone, MUD, 1973 http://www.landsofstone.org/
- 23. Tim Berners-Lee, The World Wide Web, 1991 The British computer engineer responsible for the web is Tim Berners-Lee
- 24. Marc Andreessen The first web browser, Mosaic was invented by UofI college students Marc Andreeson and Eric Brin.
- 25. One of the first commercially successful search engines was Yahoo!
- 28. Ask Jeeves, 1996; Ask, 2006
- 31. Wiki is Hawaiian for fast. The most successful wiki to date is Wikipedia.
- 33. Search History: Pandora, 2008
- 34. From Alice To Ocean: First Photo Book With A CD Program
- 35. http://mono.org/
- 38. URL stands for uniform resource locator. A URL can be thought of as the address of a web page Parts of a URL Transfer Protocol Filename Domain Name
- 39. The W3C mission is to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web.
- 40. Filtering
- 43. An important issue facing visual communicators is free speech versus government censorship.
- 45. Alexa Top Sites On The Web http://www.alexa.com/topsites
- 47. Search History: Delocator, 2005 http://delocator.net/
- 48. If Web 1.0 was about reading Web 2.0 is about writing and sharing.
- 52. All one medium