New Media & Technology

2. Introduction to New Media Tech for Marcoms

Posted by Tom | Filed under 02. Intro to New Media Tech

Introduction to the Unit, ways of working and recent history of new media technologies for marcoms.

Here’s a brief introduction to the history of the web.

And here is a painful reminder of what the typical personal web presence looked like in the 90s from the CSS Zen Garden.

Related posts:

1. 2. Intro to New Media Tech slides
2. Why bother trying to access these tricky social media platforms?

Tagged : design, web 2.0

Comments (3) | January 21st, 2010

3 Responses to “2. Introduction to New Media Tech for Marcoms”

1. evangelia vossou Says:
   January 25, 2010 at 12:25 am

   this is really so colourful which makes me feel dizzy!
   it seems that they were trying to use every knowledge they had regarding internet in one single web page. how can i find more examples like this one from the 90s?

   Log in to Reply
2. Tom Says:
   January 25, 2010 at 9:40 am

   Good point. You may not realise it, but there are a few projects where people are trying to create archives of the internet. The site I made for The Wave for instance is now in the British Library’s archive.

   To find other examples of sites that look this horrible might be difficult, because they were generally individual users’ pages. Have a look at the “Wayback Machine” though and see what companies had terrible websites back then…
   http://www.archive.org/index.php

   Log in to Reply
3. Tom Says:
   January 25, 2010 at 9:42 am

   Here’s the BBC from 1997 for example:
   http://web.archive.org/web/19970509152911/http://www0.bbc.co.uk/

   Log in to Reply