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  • The history of the internet: 10 life changing milestones

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    17 June 2022
    Everyone here at MOTHandRUST has been talking about the Web Design Museum. Fascinating! 


    December 25th, 1990
    At CERN, a Swiss research center, a British physicist and internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web browser, called WorldWideWeb.


    August 6th, 1991
    Tim Berners-Lee launched the world's first website at: 
    http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
    Unfortunately, the original website has not been preserved and the link shows only its 1992 copy. However, it is still interesting to see what the world's first website looked like. No images would be found on the web until 1992. So, not as exciting as most would hope?


    July 18th, 1992
    Silvano de Gennaro, an Italian computer scientist who worked at CERN research labs, was asked by Tim Berners-Lee to scan and upload a photo of a parody pop-group called Les Horribles Cernettes (The Horrible CERN Girls) onto the info.cern.ch website. This photo became one of the first images to be published on the World Wide Web.


    January, 1994
    Jerry Yang and David Filo, two Ph.D. students from Stanford University, created a list of websites entitled "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web." In March 1994, the portal was renamed Yahoo!


    1994
    Microsoft.com launches. A note on the homepage says, "If your browser doesn't support images, we have a text menu as well.".


    July 15, 1995
    Still struggling with his English, actor Antonio Banderas was an early pioneer, using the web to introduce himself to Hollywood


    1996
    This may be Apple's first site? Early sites tended to look like items IRL as this helped with usability. For example, having what looked like actual buttons would help people who were not familiar with the internet understand what they need to do.

    September 4th, 1998
    Ph.D. students from Stanford, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, created the Google search engine. It was a research project whose aim was to find relevant search results using a mathematical algorithm. The name Google is a deliberate misspelling of the word googol, which refers to a very high number.


    November 14th, 2009
    "Flat design" didn't really come along until after 2010. Microsoft's site for the Zune multimedia player is considered to be one of the first uses of flat design in user interface. We no longer need the online world to look like real life.


    Feb 9th, 2009
    The internet social networking site Facebook introduced its “like button” feature for the first time. The announcement post above explains how some FB posts could have over 30 comments, all saying 'awesome!' 'Congrats!' The aggregation of the sentiment 'I like this,' makes room in the comments for longer accolades." What was life was like before 2009 when you couldn't like things online?
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  • Brigitte Reiffenstuel Costume Design

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    10 May 2022


    Brigitte Reiffenstuel’s award-winning costumes have been seen on stages all over the world for the past twenty years, from the MET in New York to London’s Royal Opera House to La Scala Milan.

    Though she is very well-known in the realm of opera, her career continues to expand into the wider fields such as film, theatre, and advertising. She wanted her new site to show this. We were introduced to Brigitte by our long term friend and client, London set designer, Michael Levine. 

    Her site's key audience includes production companies and directors. Being very busy, they tend to very quickly skim through portfolio sites. Therefore, the overall impression of a scrolling page was important for the new site, as was effective storytelling with images rather than text.

    Our new site for Brigitte scales all images to the optimum size for the viewer's device, so image zooms are not required. Both portrait and landscape formats are portrayed equally well. The site features an easy, flexible layout system where she can upload, test, rearrange and position all images until they are curated for maximum impact and storytelling. This is boosted by the use of complementary background colours for each project.

    Finally, there is quite a bit about Brigitte on the web and Google search results vary widely; examples of her work may be dated, and so on. With search engine optimisation, a Google search will lead users directly to her site more frequently, meaning she has more control over how she is portrayed online.

    brigittereiffenstuel.com
     
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