Visual communication and the web

“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

Prepared by Danielle Oser, APR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0pPfyYtiBc

Thomas L. Friedman New York Times columnist

When a brand name/NOUN also becomes a VERB there’s a cultural phenomenon going on

Google was created by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The two creators of Google attended, but did not graduate from Stanford University.

The name for Google originated from the mathematical term googol

Trends: https://www.google.com/trends/topcharts#date=201403 https://www.google.com/trends/hottrends#htv=m

The Google search engine makes money by selling advertisements and software

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atmk07Otu9U&feature=player_embedded

The science fiction writer who coined the phrase cyberspace was William Gibson.

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.

The term to describe the fact that all media of presentations rely on computer technology to some degree is called convergence.

http://thefutureofpublishing.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Internet-adoption-over-time-chart.jpg

Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4

Television-based World's First Teletext Information Service

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

Videotex online service accessible through telephone lines, and is considered one of the world's most successful pre-World Wide Web online services.

Online Service Offered By Knight-Ridder And AT&T From 1983 To 1986 Intended To Be "The McDonald's Of Videotex"

Lands Of Stone, MUD, 1973 http://www.landsofstone.org/

Tim Berners-Lee, The World Wide Web, 1991 The British computer engineer responsible for the web is Tim Berners-Lee

Marc Andreessen The first web browser, Mosaic was invented by UofI college students Marc Andreeson and Eric Brin.

One of the first commercially successful search engines was Yahoo!

https://archive.org/web/

Ask Jeeves, 1996; Ask, 2006

Wiki is Hawaiian for fast. The most successful wiki to date is Wikipedia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXD1TRGafQ0

Search History: Pandora, 2008

From Alice To Ocean: First Photo Book With A CD Program

http://mono.org/

Stanford Guidelines http://credibility.stanford.edu/guidelines/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3sr7_0FyPA

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

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.

Filtering

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Maryville+University/@38.645384,-90.505745,3a,90y,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sHh1zO6_jZCcDE2fRGZUvwA!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x87d8d3366132e0ed:0x1753d274dc2f512b

http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/goodtoknow/

An important issue facing visual communicators is free speech versus government censorship.

Alexa Top Sites On The Web http://www.alexa.com/topsites

http://metaatem.net/words/ http://www.dipity.com/mashups/timetube/ http://mashable.com/2009/10/08/top-mashups/

Search History: Delocator, 2005 http://delocator.net/

If Web 1.0 was about reading

Web 2.0 is about writing and sharing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYedZth9ArM

All one medium

http://futureexploration.net/Newspaper_Extinction_Timeline.pdf

http://novaspivack.typepad.com/RadarNetworksTowardsAWebOS.jpg

http://www.futureme.org/