Jan 22 - 3 articles

The article that struck me as most interesting was "Realising the Full Potential of the Web" by Tim Berners-Lee, and it was the one that I read last. I liked the way in which the article was formatted in this past, present, future sort of way. It began with what the original idea for the web was, what happened when that idea took off, where we are now in today's current web world, and where this is all headed. Much like what Stephanie said in her post, it's strange to think of how long all of this development takes. As a consumer, I just go with the flow, and never really realize all that goes into this production. What comes out today was conceptualized twenty-some years ago, and that is crazy!

The first article I dove into was the "As We May Think" one from TheAtlantic.com. This was interesting because it was about the scientific side of technology, and again correlates with what I was saying previously that, these ideas are conceptualized so far in advance. The amount of science that goes into producing the web is remarkable and it's important to understand that science is what makes all this communication possible. Bush wrote this article in 1945 and so it's pretty amazing to see how ahead of time this whole idea was.

"A Little History of the World Wide Web" begins with Bush's article in The Atlantic Monthly and how that shaped the way for future technology. While most of this article was just dates and other crazy coding lingo, it was again interesting to see how far advanced technology was.

I thought all three of these articles were fascinating because I had no idea how all this came about. While I've had computer classes for years, I was rather unsure still about the time frame to develop all these ideas, as well as what all went into it. I liked how Stephanie pointed out some dates like in 1989 3D film making came into play, but it wasn't until 1995 when Pixar released the first feature film, Toy Story, with this animation. I liked putting that into perspective, especially because it took that many years to create it, but instantly 2D animation was replaced!!