In this article writtten Kate Wagner I found it interesting that it was written by someone that’s experienced the world wide web from the beginning. It’s hard to think about the world without the web for me since I’ve always had it. When I was growing up the web was already around for a while. I remember in middle school how everyone started getting on Instagram, but I was the only one that had to wait until I was 13 to get my account because my mom was so worried about me getting on the web.
From this reading they talked about how the internet first came into existence using a very basic and bleak running mode. It took a while for the internet to start customizing it's looks to its users and getting more and more upgrades/improvements.
Professional run companies wanted to get their pages on the web because this would be a place where they could reach millions within minutes. Some took this approach by letting their users take a more personal aesthetic while others, like Facebook, wanted their sites more cohesive, less of a personal touch, and still a place to post.
In the early days of the web there were two sides, the ones that wanted everything to stay the same and others that wanted to add their own look to their webpages. Some saw this and thought it was too much and tacky, but on the other hand some would look at the minimalistic sites and think they’re uninteresting.
Facebook was made to be different from Myspace. It was clean making it an easy site to use so all ages could get around. It wanted a higher class of people then Myspace might have had. So, they launched it first to Harvard and other Ivy League schools trying to gain more intelligent people on their site, then they started down the line of the lesser class until letting any random person join the website. By doing this they change the way people saw Facebook instead of seeing a site as “ghetto” they saw this site and thought is was made for “honors kids” it had a different standard then Myspace had.
Though I never had a Myspace it does sound like something I would have liked more than Facebook. I like to be able to edit things and make them personalized to me and I think it is nice that people had a site like that to create their own pages about their own personal interests.
“The artifacts of internet life are personal—that is, not professionally or historically notable—and therefore worthless.” This stood out to me because I’ve had other teachers talk about how even though our parents always warned us to think about what we post on the internet because it’ll always be out there. But it might not be. Myspace users had a platform where they could post and they thought it would always be there because they posted it out onto the web but just like that it was all gone, deleted off the face of the internet. Though we see the internet as a forever thing if one day the internet goes down so does so much of my own work my art could just disappear that’s why those I have social media it’s good to have backups things on hard drives and printed out because nothing is forever. Our digital footprint is still something to be mindful of though because you never know if this specific situation that happened for MySpace will happen to other sites and programs.