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Thoughts on the impact graphics have had on the internet
since the advent of mosaic
I think graphics and the Internet impact each other. For example,the book Underwriting the Internet: How Technical Advances, Financial Engineering, and Entrepreneurial Genius are Building the Information Highway by Leslie Hiraoka explains that the Mosaic programmers added graphics into the browser program after receiving feedback from consumers (64). People wanted a more user-friendly interface to work with. Let’s admit it, we all like websites with pictures. This became very evident when Mosaic had over a million downloads in the first year of its existence in 1993. Ever since Mosaic introduced users to the graphics interface for the Internet, there was no going back. It forever changed the way people view the Internet and what they expect from it.
Nowadays, it is practically impossible to keep viewers’ attention on a website without some sort of graphics, flash video, or other interactive links in the web pages. Professionalism and credibility are even graded upon the appearance of a website, most of the time. The book Movers and Shakers: The 100 Most Influential Figures in Modern Business states, “Mosaic changed the World Wide Web forever. With built-in support for Windows and Macintosh systems, the nontechnologically minded could access the Web” (116). Adding graphics to the web made it easier to access and more appealing to users, and this is just a sampling of how much Mosaic has impacted the Internet.
Works Cited
Hiraoka, Leslie S. Underwriting the Internet: How Technical Advances, Financial Engineering, and Entrepreneurial Genius are Building the Information Highway. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2005. Print.
Movers and Shakers: The 100 Most Influential Figures in Modern Business. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003. Print.
Nowadays, it is practically impossible to keep viewers’ attention on a website without some sort of graphics, flash video, or other interactive links in the web pages. Professionalism and credibility are even graded upon the appearance of a website, most of the time. The book Movers and Shakers: The 100 Most Influential Figures in Modern Business states, “Mosaic changed the World Wide Web forever. With built-in support for Windows and Macintosh systems, the nontechnologically minded could access the Web” (116). Adding graphics to the web made it easier to access and more appealing to users, and this is just a sampling of how much Mosaic has impacted the Internet.
Works Cited
Hiraoka, Leslie S. Underwriting the Internet: How Technical Advances, Financial Engineering, and Entrepreneurial Genius are Building the Information Highway. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2005. Print.
Movers and Shakers: The 100 Most Influential Figures in Modern Business. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003. Print.