Olia Lialina. A Vernacular Web. Free Colections of Web Elements
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- For example “back” and “forward” buttons are part of the design set for non-professionals who ignored the corresponding buttons on the browser. Indeed, how could you delegate such an important navigational issue to the browser, an application that had a new version released every six months!
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- The same is true for so called “bullets”, the small images used to replace the standard html list elements. It was a historical feature of the amateur web to prefer expression over structure. Early web makers were inspired by the possibility of using images and gladly substituted dull lists with spectacular graphics.
- Free collections are the soul of the vernacular web. Lots of people were building their pages with free graphics and lots of people were making collections. The many-to-many principle really worked. Making your own site and building collections was a parallel process for a lot of people. The early web was more about spirit than skills. To distribute was no less important than to create.
title: “Olia Lialina. A Vernacular Web. Free Colections of Web Elements”
author: “art.teleportacia.org”
url: ”http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/collections/”
date: 2023-12-19
source: hypothesis
tags: media/articles
Olia Lialina. A Vernacular Web. Free Colections of Web Elements
Metadata
Highlights
- For example “back” and “forward” buttons are part of the design set for non-professionals who ignored the corresponding buttons on the browser. Indeed, how could you delegate such an important navigational issue to the browser, an application that had a new version released every six months!
- The same is true for so called “bullets”, the small images used to replace the standard html list elements. It was a historical feature of the amateur web to prefer expression over structure. Early web makers were inspired by the possibility of using images and gladly substituted dull lists with spectacular graphics.
- Free collections are the soul of the vernacular web. Lots of people were building their pages with free graphics and lots of people were making collections. The many-to-many principle really worked. Making your own site and building collections was a parallel process for a lot of people. The early web was more about spirit than skills. To distribute was no less important than to create.