NewMediaArtAndDesign

Wild Wild Wired

Bernadette Neuroth finished her studies with a paper about WWW standards — Wild Wild Web: 15 years of browser wars, software competition and other conflicts; 17 years of W3C’s effort to regulate the development of languages and protocols.

Bernadette’s design project — programmed in HTML5 and CSS3, according to the newest and hottest standards, but in notorious dot-com style — is Wired’s Timeline of Predictions (http://nm.merz-akademie.de/~bernadette.neuroth/timeline/). 18 years of proclaiming computer revolutions and the same 18 years of kissing goodbye standards and technologies. Scroll the bar and notice that Wired has buried the WWW already two times.