Post by Morreion on Mar 12, 2014 12:12:18 GMT -5
Web Turns 25: 10 Graphics To See (Information Week)
The World Wide Web turns 25 today, March 12, 2014, and despite what you may have heard, it's good for you. Nevermind the malware, the fraud, the trolls, the porn, the flames, the misinformation, the surveillance, the hate speech, and the rickrolling, time-wasting, fatuous social stew that passes for human interaction. We have only ourselves to blame for that.
The Web has become an indispensable communications medium, capable of conveying content that ranges from banal to brilliant, from silly to sublime. It has become an interface for democratic participation, for commerce, for science, for health, for advertising, and for entertainment. It is a doorway to connection and to contention. It is an economic engine.
25 Web 'Milestones' We Wish We Could Forget (PC Magazine)
...Today, the Web is the cornerstone of the Internet. It's become the foremost global platform to communicate, learn, shop, entertain, and so much more. But it's not all good, of course. Many corners of the Web are major time wasters or just completely nonsense - from technological advances gone awry to memes that should never have been so memorable. That's what happens on an electronic medium where no one knows you're a dog ... but they should be able to tell you're a troll.
Here's our list of 25 thing that never could have happened without the existence of the Web, but probably shouldn't have. Fingers crossed the next 25 years contains less of them.
Dancing Baby anyone? Pets.com? Star Wars Kid?
2007—RickRolling
When you click on a link, thinking it's going to take you to something new and exciting—probably recommended by a friend—and you end up seeing Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up" from 1987, well, that's called a RickRoll. It was a fun practical joke at first, then it seemed to be every third link on the Internet for a while. There are better things to see, like this.
LOL! 'Never Gonna Give You Up' on YouTube has over 75 million hits!
The World Wide Web turns 25 today, March 12, 2014, and despite what you may have heard, it's good for you. Nevermind the malware, the fraud, the trolls, the porn, the flames, the misinformation, the surveillance, the hate speech, and the rickrolling, time-wasting, fatuous social stew that passes for human interaction. We have only ourselves to blame for that.
The Web has become an indispensable communications medium, capable of conveying content that ranges from banal to brilliant, from silly to sublime. It has become an interface for democratic participation, for commerce, for science, for health, for advertising, and for entertainment. It is a doorway to connection and to contention. It is an economic engine.
25 Web 'Milestones' We Wish We Could Forget (PC Magazine)
...Today, the Web is the cornerstone of the Internet. It's become the foremost global platform to communicate, learn, shop, entertain, and so much more. But it's not all good, of course. Many corners of the Web are major time wasters or just completely nonsense - from technological advances gone awry to memes that should never have been so memorable. That's what happens on an electronic medium where no one knows you're a dog ... but they should be able to tell you're a troll.
Here's our list of 25 thing that never could have happened without the existence of the Web, but probably shouldn't have. Fingers crossed the next 25 years contains less of them.
Dancing Baby anyone? Pets.com? Star Wars Kid?
2007—RickRolling
When you click on a link, thinking it's going to take you to something new and exciting—probably recommended by a friend—and you end up seeing Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up" from 1987, well, that's called a RickRoll. It was a fun practical joke at first, then it seemed to be every third link on the Internet for a while. There are better things to see, like this.
LOL! 'Never Gonna Give You Up' on YouTube has over 75 million hits!
