AR250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Alohanet, Henri La Fontaine, Arpanet
28 Feb 2018
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What is media archeology: field of study that has developed largely within communication studies and film studies. Archaeology of the internet: how do we conduct archaeological investigations of an ephemeral entity, the internet has a history and associated material culture. Tuesday, february 27, 2018: all of this can be subject to objective, critical analyses. Artifacts in websites: emoticons first appear in a memo at carnegie mellon university in 1982 :-) & :-( Tuesday, february 27, 2018 issue : the first web celebrity. First thing to go viral, live 24 hour live stream of a trojan room coffee pot, university of. Cambridge (1993: self-publishing of websites became common with founding of geocities, shut down in. Web 2. 0: emphasis on user-generated, interactive content. Not a new version of the internet, but a revised method for making use of this platform: noodlebox (1997) used shockwave for entire website rather than single, interactive element on a page.
