ART 80F - MODULE 5 LECTURE CONTENT
EARLY NETWORK STRUCTURES
AOL + EARLY HTML WEB PAGES
American online - early "networked" PLATFORM
Services like American Online were also Content Developers + Designers
Provided content
Directed users through content
Designed + developed services / affordances
"Drove" user experiences
Portal to the internet
EARLY WEBPAGES - TRUE WEB HTML CONTENT
Services provided a "guide" or "organization" to online content, compared to the non-centralized format of the early internet.
Websites were visually limited compared to what services could develop / install
Browsers were still in early development
Search functions limited / primitive
