Editing Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/brainstorm


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* What happens when I navigate the web? 
* Enact the process that take place from opening a web-browser to getting a webpage.
** (computer): Browser
** Type URL to browser
** URL: a request and address to that request
** Server: receives the request, gets content for the request and sends it back to the browser
** Browser gets the text content, "reads" it and displays it in a graphic form.
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== topics ==

* Internet and Web:
** History of the Internet: 
Critical Art Ensemble "Flesh Machine: Cyborgs, Designer Babies, & New Eugenic Consciousness" - Appendix (p.140) offers an concise description of the motivations behind the creation of the Internet.  


* Homepages   
** It was understood as the way you  presented yourself on the Web world
** Homepage used to be your home on the Web, now all very similar. my home on facebook is very similar to yours.
** Geocities closure in 2009 - rescue of pages by [http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Archive] Team and screenshots added everyday under http://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com/


* Identity
** Malleable: No one knows youŕe a dog
*** [http://mouchette.org/ Mouchete] 
** Static and unique: One single identity
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