Today guest lecture was Jason Nelson's Guest Lecture and he discussed on "Net.Art and Digital Creativity".
Various interesting facts were added by the lecturer today. The leturer told us the history of the internet, he said, In 1990 and 1992 there were only few website available for people. Few business companies realised that interet in the later future would be a great source of income for the company, so companies started launching up their websites. Some website did very well such as amazon.com and ebay.com. Some websites like pets.com didn't do very well because they didn't realise that websites should only be made for businesses with international market. Pet.com suffered looses due to it, because the sale prices of the company were too low and shipping costs and packing costs just added up the price, increasing the selling price. The website suffered a huge loose due to less sales.
I'm a computer science student, a big fan of cool softwares. The lecturer today showed us his website which had I think almost 50 html pages. It was completely in flash with amazing graphics. The lecture explained how different websites have different impact on the users, what users like to see in each website, how they liked it to be presented.
Did you guyz know what deleting stuff off your computer doesn't really delete it, it just virtually remove the data from your computer and somehow the data can be backtracked. Amazing aye !!!
Google finds its search websites using bots. What it does is it sends bots all over the internet and looks into each websites database and displays the website with the relevant information.
A story told by the lecturer - To prevent copywrite the CD companies came up with an idea. The idea of adding a raw data at the edge of the CD , the data would stop the user to copy mp3's into the CD or copy the music onto their HDD. A 15 year old boy cracked this by blacking out the edge using a marker. IT WORKED !!! yay !!! lolz. The music dudes need to come up with a better idea.
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