Well yesterday we had a different lecturer, not sure what his name was. He was, well a interesting man.. haha. When I first got to the class he was daring people (I think it got up to $30) to drink from a jug of juice that had been sitting there for over a week.. strange start.
The lecture was about Net Art and creative ways to use the internet. He briefly touched on the history of websites; 1997-1999 the Dot.com boom where all businesses were creating online shops, this was the bulk of websites on the internet. In the early 2000's though most of these crashed and lost a lot of money. Then along came the social networking phenonemon, Myspace and Facebook in particular. Though our lecturer predicts that once this craze dies down, the next big thing will be more specialised websites.
He showed us numerous different websites, about all kinds of different things. We looked at how website layouts had changed over the years, using the example of Yahoo. He showed us different kinds of social networking sites, and a list from Wikipedia of the hundreds that are out there. A funny one we looked at was Elftown where members create their own Elf badges, I guess catering to your more Lord of the Rings, etc. kind of fans. We also looked at Google Maps and how you can add places to it. Apparently we will be doing this next week in the lecture.
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