The Evolution of The Web

This is a must see link for all web and internet enthusiast, users, and people who are enrolled in internet related studies, like in computer science, information system, new media, digital journalism, and even graphic design.

The Evolution of The Web is depicting how the web was born in 1990 with the exist of HTTP and all that awe technology that comes after that until now. From HTML, CSS, JavaScript to XML, AJAX to Geolocation, Web Workers, Offline Web Apps:Appcache, and WebGL. I even don’t know the latter existed. Luckily you can click more to find more information about each technology.

So, does every browser that enabled us to explore the web. The creator even displayed how each browser has changed since version one until now if you click any one of them. And how some of them has “died”, like Mosaic and Netscape.

As you can see that between 2000 to 2003 there is some kind of vacuum in the journey. I think this is related to the burst of the dot-com bubble era. The web then regained its strength and evolved even more in the coming years thanks to the popularity of the internet because of facebook, twitter, and the whole social media army.

It’s quite comprehensive and very interactive. I wish we could also see how real popular web looked in every era as an example how those technology combined in the web. I think that would give a more vivid insight, especially to those who are fortunate to know the web and internet from the day they were born.

Web Comparison

This is a group presentation we did on class. Here we did a comparison for 3 international consumer product. In this case they were Nokia, Samsung Mobile, Sony Ericsson. You might find it interesting.  Before jumping into the comparison in detail, I want to highlight some points, such as how cell phones (They are the big 3 in cell phones industry) has evolved and why web is important for these companies?

• Most cellphone user internet literature and familiar with e-commerce.
• User diversity
• User need detail info of the product (specification, dimention,etc)
• Upgrade/download system or other application  (even can drive more profit)
• Vendors need third party development to improve their platform

You also can find some unique characteristics in these webs, such as:

• Region based websites
• Cool flash usages
• Aps store
• Microsite for certain products (mostly flash based)
• Mobile site
• Different sites for different kinds of users incl. developers
• Social media integrated (campaign, etc)

Find out more about it on this presentation and tell me which one is the best web according to you

To get the these effects just choose which one suits your taste and upload your photo. Youcan get different amazing effects in less then one minute. No need to be a photoshop expert at all. Here are some of my own experiments. Pretty cool, huh?

picjoke wall-e

picjoke billboard

picjoke poster

picjoke show

picjoke ads

picjoke loreal

picjoke iPhone

picjoke art

picjoke banner

picjoke newspaper headline

A word of advice though. You might want to pick picture of you with good resolution, with almost the same position like the sample picture, and a bit glamorous. Otherwise, you might end up with missing mouth like mine here.

picjoke cubicle gone wrong

picjoke gone wrong

Since the picture is generated by program, so who know what the outcome will be. Be patient and do some experiments if you don’t get the star impression.

As for the technical stuffs, this is some serious image manipulation using PHP. I’m pretty impressed and curious about the codes, but I bet it still use the GD graphic library.

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