Wow. This video is like an artifact from a bygone era. I think it already serves as a great snapshot of the things that excited progressive web users of the mid-2000s - me being one of them.
Wow. This comment is like an artifact from a bygone era. I think it already serves as a great snapshot of the things that excited progressive web users of the mid-2010s - me being one of them.
Wow. This comment on the comment of this video is like an artifact of a bygone era. It serves as a great snapshot of the things that exciting progressive web users of the early 2020s - me being still intrigued, very interested and slightly confused. 🙏
This video takes me back to when it all seemed so much simpler. The internet truly is the one invention that we've created that we have no idea what it can do.
Although 14 years separate us from video, we consider that, to a certain extent, it still presents issues that the networked society still debates today, such as the issue of authenticity/digital identity/mask, copyrights, ethics, connection/community vs invasion of privacy, technological dependence, the place of formal education/school institutions in the digital world. It is certain that today Web 4.0 has brought us new concerns and benefits that provoke reflection, being the expansion of artificial intelligence one of them.
I started showing Design Students this Video, 15 years ago. It is wonderful to see how you see the internet. Thanks for making this. I still use Blogger, and I feel the use of camera phones, has changed everything.
Almost 13 years ago you produced a short outstanding video, which my colleagues and I are now reviewing and commenting for an Education and Tech Master's Degree (Elearning Pedagogy by UAb, Portugal). Just so you know, we'll be focusing on this video and two more: A Vision of Students Today and An Anthropological Introduction to RUclips. The Machine is Us/ing Us shows how hypertext markup language (HTML) has been connecting us from the early 90s till now. [For more on how HTML evolved, please check two interesting articles out there on the web: 25 Years of Markup: The Evolution of HTML and A Brief History of Markup.] Cursive writing emancipated speech from man in a linear way and started the process of virtualization of communication, so it is very interesting that The Machine is Us/ing Us starts with you writing and showing the constraints of this (uni)linear process and proceeds to show the affordances of online writing. That is to say, you demonstrate how HTML associates items, adds value to content and meaning in addition to allowing incremental connections. Let us not forget that the X in XTML "stood for “eXtensible” (in 25 Years of Markup: The Evolution of HTML), which is why as you show in this video, "data can be exported free of formatting constraints". Blogging. video posting and, more recently social media platforms became more and more popular because they allowed users to generate and upload content easily (once the technical aspects were mastered). WYSIWYG user interfaces in such platforms and publishing media sophisticated how content was presented, thus increasing its interest and shareability. Later, mobile devices and apps intertwined posting, reading, sharing, liking, video recording, commenting, reposting and curating with our daily lives and social habits. We now surf a web of more and more fluid data, free of formatting constraints. We are mobile, which is why some years ago I picked up an online alias that reflected that: Miz Mobile. Soon, Generation X (my life experience generation) will be the only one who will know how things were before the advent of the web and HTML enhanced life. Generations Y, Z and upcoming ones were already born into a Machine mashed-up world. I am a teacher, so I've dealt with the Generations that followed and are following mine. Teachers, schools and teaching, in general, seem to be at loss. They haven't yet figured out the things we're supposed to be rethinking. What will it take to "extend" us? When will that happen? Most of the questions asked in A Vision of Students Today are still frustratingly relevant. [Ana Margarida Fonseca - pedagogiadoelearning.com/ & Elearning Pedagogy Master's @ UAb - Team Sigma @ Ed. e Soc. em Rede ]
"...some years ago I picked up an online alias that reflected that: Miz Mobile." Now I understand... This corroborates your passion for this new world.
In fact, when I think about it for a while, I see that we were a privileged generation, in which we went through several changes and we have been passing and accompanying! Many have already been lost along the way ... and the most recent generals had no idea what it was like before ... Good job
Ester and Pedro, one of the things we discussed a lot was "Is the machine US? Or Using us? " We’re pretty sure that we are the machines, in the sense that we build, operate, execute, repair and even destroy, with the machines we create. So they are the tools and we are the machines who have the power. On the other hand, in the Portuguese language there is an idiom we use, which I can translate “You are a machine!”. We use this when we want to praise someone’s performance or attitude. In English you have something similar which is the expression “like a well-oiled machine”. So, we can prove we are machines. And this is the bright side of this expression and in our opinion this could be the side Mike Wesch wants us to focus on. Accumulating knowledge is easy for machines, but creativity is a human attribute and it will always be impossible for the machine to follow the same path as the human mind when it comes to inventing new ways of dealing with reality. The ideas suggested by humans will always have interpretations conditioned by emotions and feelings, and the good or bad way they take will also always depend on who interprets them. The network is a set of creative minds that use a resource made available by technology. That's why the machine is us. But, are machines using us? We don’t think so. Many people fear that machines gain too much power and will start “invading and destroying the human race”, as we’ve seen in so many Hollywood films. We think they are overreacting. We, humans, invented the HTML, the HTML, gave birth to the Web 1.0, the Web 2.0, this global social phenomenon, the Web 3.0, known as the semantic, mobile, phone or flexible web and we are now entering the Web 4.0, where artificial intelligence will take over. So many changes in such a little time. Those who were born before the cyberspace even existed are witnesses, guinea pigs of all these innovations, but those who are born in the cyberspace era, this virtual world is becoming more and more their real world. Therefore we must adapt and adaptation means changes. We must reshape, redo, and restyle all our areas of life, especially those who play a vital role in the upbringing of our young children. These children will be adults immersed in technology, networks, virtual communities where sharing, exchanging, cooperating and collaborating are the keywords. This in an invitation for education to enter this Era, by breaking through the old, traditional, superior, untouchable, inflexible, closed standards and by rethinking copyright, authoring, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetoric and policies. Team Lambda Educação e Sociedade em Rede MPeL UAB
This video is probably the best motivational video I've ever seen as a programmer... We are teachers if you think about it. We might not be traditional teachers that teach people, but teachers that teach computers all day, everyday. The best video I've ever seen on RUclips by far!!! Very eye opening...
It's 2023 now. Only 12 million views? This video is one of the classic videos for me from the early days of the web 2.0. I still like to watch it now. I hope this video will be in a museum one day!
We are a group of the Master of Pedagogy at E-learnig, from Universidade Aberta de Lisboa. Portugal, in which we had the privilege of watching your videos through a proposal by Professor António Teixeira. We consider that we are lucky for that very reason! In fact, all that technology does is to facilitate and promote new ways of presenting content, created by humans and here Web 4.0 already starts to have some differences, through the mixture of text, images and video, all with the possibility of having more links, hypertext, for even more content spread all over the network. But we cannot fail to draw attention to the title and the play on words it contains. This title can lead us to two analyzes, a negative view about technology, almost as if Paul Virílio was “present”, and another more positive one, which places us in a prominent position, of global creators, responsible for everything that it passes around us and above all as holders, creators of knowledge sharing. Lambda Group MPel UAB
I remember the days when my parents discovered RUclips a few months after me. It really hit me how the world was about to change. How we’d communicate and spend our time.
Wesch came to my school @mtsu last year! My digital media teachers show this video to freshmen every year while they sit there and yawn, thinking about lunch instead of the implications of a semantic web.
You must be fairly young. To an old-timer like myself who wrote code in the early days of the internet, this is a walk down memory lane. We've come so far with this technology in such a short time. It truly is a wonderful time to be alive!
The author, using real screens in a very creative way, leads us to a transformation from written to digital texts, which is provocative as he suggests imagination turned in virtual. Written text is linear. Is it an affirmation or a provocation? And then, it goes to text is said to be nonlinear. Is it true, maybe due to the reader's trip on a vessel of imagination? And then...digital text, different, real nonlinear, no need for vessels to getting the reader through an imaginary trip, the movement is for real from one part of the text to another or to a new text anywhere. The digital text is flexible as it is no longer a block. It can evolve to a more comprehensive subject expanded from selected words (as links) or to a more qualified one looking carefully at a detailed explanation from them. It is virtual, it is made of texts and links and at most of the time has no limits and no size. And the author leads us further again, nominating the absence of text structure and subject limits as hyper, about all, hypertext, and it is a milestone for web 2.0 because it is the base of HTML, the language of the websites, which started from text form and content editing to sophisticated websites creating. From this point on, the author leads us to an accelerated race to unlimited data interchange between sites, starting with the creation of XML, which separate text content from text form, allowing information interchange in the network turned in World Wide Web (WWW). And then, information recovery, how can WWW navigators find information? TAG appears as the solution to reach data, which is very nice but not the whole thing, it is the beginning. The author, in extraordinarily simple construction, explains that tags we created feed a back database to WWW, so we are teaching the machine and when we create a link, we are teaching it an idea. So, we are the machine and it is a big one as 100 billion times per day we click on a web page. Finally, the author invites us to think about Web 2.0 as a way to rethink believes from copyright, authorship, identity, commerce to love, family, ourselves. Luiz Carvalho - Team ÔMEGA ESR/mPeL/UAb
I remember watching this back when it was extremely relevant. This song has stuck with me for years and gives me great nostalgia of early online gaming (RuneScape ;D) and learning about a new version of the Internet.
Funny, I thought democratic governments were supposed to represent "the people", but it seems that the internet is doing a much better job of that than any government out there.
The majority of this video ended up being wrong. Tech-wise, dhtml was able to do a lot of what Ajax was able to do... dhtml just failed to get popular. In terms of “Social media” it is not much different from the aol messenger in the 90s or irc from earlier. Facebook isn’t even much different from its inception. It’s the same news feed now that it was 14 years ago except with more cnn on it and now Trying to make you vote for a democrat. Another concept in this video is “everyone can create their own blog.” This utopia ended up being meaningless because google News mostly only considers liberal-leaning news sites as reliable news sources. Not independent blogs or independent media. Unless you have are super popular , google will not make you visible. From 8 years ago until now, We ended up not rethinking copyright at all. RUclips had to bow to copyright and eventually create copyright filters and systems to remove infringing material rather than allowing rampant copyright infringement on the site. They ended up settling that copyright case that Viacom sued them . What this video didn’t mention is We are rethinking the free speech aspect online with social media giants suppressing speech and shadow banning people with a Certain political ideologies. President Trump showed examples and brought it to general attention, and his attorney general Jeff sessions today announced an investigation into social media giants. this video considered all the great things that may happen but didn’t consider collusion between tech giants to make us all slaves to their ideologies. We need a real open source internet that isn’t controlled and ruled by the same 5 trillion-dollar tech companies. How can someone like Alex jones be un-personned off the internet and we claim in this video “everyone has a voice?” Clearly everyone doesn’t if google and Apple can choose who has a voice. The video says “who will organize all this data? We will.” Unfortunately, the world’s largest advertising companies google and Facebook decided to horde the data themselves to make their founders ultra rich...... We have to rethink all this before it’s too late. An internet bill of rights sounds like a good start.
Lots of good points, but in terms of SEO and SEM, links, shares, and optimization teach the web and get you found. It still works. So, in that he was right. As to privacy, he was right about that too. That said you make excellent points.
My professor just showed this in our class; it fascinated and resonated with me! I've grown up along with the Web, and have known it from the beginning. Thank you for this.
Web 2.0 is a medium of communication, instead of just a one-way publishing of information. Its interactivity. Its the possibility of contribution and improvement to the web by anybody. Its expression of thought and opinion. Its a ever-changing community. Its alive.
inspired. examination. inspiring. awakening. teaching. learning. exploring. trespassing. provoking. provactive. truth. I wish I could think of more words off the top my head that explain what the video did. thank you.
Nice. This reflects the complicity of the net that we/I most often take for granted. The amazing thing (I think) about web 2.0 is not only the sharing of different forms of information and the manipulation of it, but the potential for interesting integrations.
Amazing how complex ideas are worth looking at and thinking about over and over and over. Then, to revisit some time later - bringing the new perspective that comes with our own transformation over time. Thank you, mwesch!
"We are the Web" article at 3:12... that was something I've looking for for years! I read it once and a year later vaguely remembered it was relevant to a conversation I was having with someone but I obviously couldn't remember which keywords to use or not use and never found it. Thanks!
Today I was at your conference at Georgetown and I really enjoyed it. Congratulations for having such an engaging personality. I would also like to thank you for sharing your pictures and findings of New Guinea.
Doctor Wesch, I think tour video is a big step in understanding out world. We Are experiencing the beginning of the Post-Linguistic Era, and tour work shows it with clearness and authority. Thank you!
What we do and how we do it on Web 2.0 has effects on the trail we leave behind and enables the machine to know us because we teach it about what is important to us. We Consider the “machine” to be an extension of us and, therefore, at our service. But like everything else, it brings challenges to which we have to respond. It is true that we can see our privacy most threatened when we realize the articulation between companies that will provide each other with data about us - "If we do not pay for a product it is because we are the product".
The Internet is no longer a passive experience for many people, but instead it allows anyone to share ideas and contribute to the body of human knowledge. This has always been possible on the Internet, but until recently you needed a certain amount of technical knowledge to be a contributor. New technology developments (sometimes known as Web 2.0) have made it possible for more people to contribute. In fact, we are doing it right now. We are contributing to the machine, and the machine is us.
I just really want to thank the makers of this video, anytime i'm procrastinating or putting off work that i should be doing, i just put this on and i motor on with what i should be doing. I find the music and themes of the video to not only be relaxing, but inspiring. It's thanks to this video that i am aware of the direction i'm heading in life. Thankyou.
Thank you SO MUCH...our web forum is exploring the 2.0 concept right now in order to enhance our presence on the Web. This explanation takes it straight to the core user without the geek-i-dom.....YES!
A single person can gain more knowledge today with a single click then an entire population ever could over the span of 2,000 years. We are now able to compile lifetimes of information from thousands of perspectives on any given subject. And finally, for the first time ever, anyone from anywhere can share their own information on it as well, thus adding to the knowledge base. It's all a part of human evolution. The common goal for humans to evolve, reshape and eventually recreate ourselves.
Wow I loved this video. In some cases music can be irritating but on this video it is not only appropriate but enhances the experience. Thanks for sharing this.
That was an excellent video! Not only was it technically flawless, its content was a very serious commentary on the world now, presented in a way anyone can understand... WELL DONE!
It's another communication revolution. Each time a new type of communication has been developed like the telephone, telegraph, printing press etc... society has been brought closer together and resulted in changes. The internet has brought us all closer together with more opportunities to share our knowledge and ourselves. It's also brought new challenges because of the ability to share more... like copyrightand everything he ends the video with...
beautiful, this is truly art and the future, this is one of the rare things that actually makes me proud to live in a time like this, and all i can say to you is... thank you
if you enjoyed this, I highly recommended watching his presentation at the library of congress "An anthropological introduction to RUclips"... Its long, but really really well done.
Absolutely brilliant video. Very entertaining, dynamic and open, just like the Web 2.0 should be. History is not something that is very far behind or happened long ago, but rather the things we do now and keep doing. History is always in the making. It's in the future, not in the past anymore.
I think this video is creative and educational. I didn't know the backstage process of posting up info on the web. I really like the ending and how the web is ultimately us and we shape it. How we need to re-think familiy, governance, authorship, copyright etc..Thank You Kansas Professor Wesch.
History has proved that technology has always affected our way of living. Feedback has been taking place between culture and technology since the beginning of time. This has affected us in a way we never imagined 20 years ago. Suddenly, our way of life has been bond to how we relate with each other using the internet (instant messenger aps, email, social networking sites, etc). This is changing how human relations take place. That englobes the family. We live in a Sci-Fi status quo already. .
Out of all the tens of thousands of videos I have watched on RUclips, this one is the most sociotechnologically (yeah, not a real word) defining in terms of history and the human spirit.
2nd draft? Wow I'm going to see the final but this was simply amazing. I watched it in silent and was like wow. You explained Web 2.0 so entertainly (guess that's not a word). Then I watched it with sound and I love this music!! What is it? Incredible movie!
Accumulating knowledge is easy for machines, but creativity is a human attribute and it will always be impossible for the machine to follow the same path as the human mind when it comes to inventing new ways of dealing with reality. The ideas suggested by humans will always have interpretations conditioned by emotions and feelings, and the good or bad way they take will also always depend on who interprets them. The network is a set of creative minds that use a resource made available by technology. That's why the machine is us. Lambda Team Uab MPeL
although this work was made three years back is excelent, i mean a lot of changes had happened since that time, but thinking like internet was three years back the video is very clear and deep
Web 2.0, still relevant during a time where Web 3.0 is growing. The Internet is always relevant, always changing, growing; it's a living thing. Much like the ideas prevailed in this video. A great video!
Very moving... But most people simply depend on the machine. Their awareness to it being a sum of evolutionary parts, is mostly benign to the cost of a wireless bill or high-speed connection. When the sheer volume of data becomes so vast that climbing even a small part of it takes a lifetime. Hence the term web, which becomes fundamentally different from the mountain climb that life has been conventionally looked upon as. Once again. My hats off to you Professor Wesch.
Wow. This video is like an artifact from a bygone era. I think it already serves as a great snapshot of the things that excited progressive web users of the mid-2000s - me being one of them.
Wow. This comment is like an artifact from a bygone era. I think it already serves as a great snapshot of the things that excited progressive web users of the mid-2010s - me being one of them.
Wow. This comment on the comment of this video is like an artifact of a bygone era. It serves as a great snapshot of the things that exciting progressive web users of the early 2020s - me being still intrigued, very interested and slightly confused. 🙏
@@badcholesterol Haha quite logical
This video takes me back to when it all seemed so much simpler. The internet truly is the one invention that we've created that we have no idea what it can do.
simpler? It's a hot mess! The internet we have now is also crap and in 10 years we will all be mocking it.
It's not a Series of Tubes, that's for sure.
I saw this when it first got uploaded. watching it in 2016 and is still a great video
Josh Bryan cool man
2018 - Still a great video.
Dale Ehrhart 2020 - still a great video.
Although 14 years separate us from video, we consider that, to a certain extent, it still presents issues that the networked society still debates today, such as the issue of authenticity/digital identity/mask, copyrights, ethics, connection/community vs invasion of privacy, technological dependence, the place of formal education/school institutions in the digital world.
It is certain that today Web 4.0 has brought us new concerns and benefits that provoke reflection, being the expansion of artificial intelligence one of them.
One of my favourite videos on RUclips from my childhood. Really left an impression on me
Same, glad you were one of those mosunderstood gifted children.
2020 here, and still watching the entire video. There are promises we need to mantain.
such as rethinking [aspect of society] in the video? Yeah those will be some big ones... not looking too great from here (December 2021).
I remember watching this video back when I was like 10 or 11, and it blew my mind for some reason. Great song, too!
I started showing Design Students this Video, 15 years ago. It is wonderful to see how you see the internet. Thanks for making this. I still use Blogger, and I feel the use of camera phones, has changed everything.
I remember watching this in college in 2010. It amazed me and still does lol. Awesome video
Almost 13 years ago you produced a short outstanding video, which my colleagues and I are now reviewing and commenting for an Education and Tech Master's Degree (Elearning Pedagogy by UAb, Portugal). Just so you know, we'll be focusing on this video and two more: A Vision of Students Today and An Anthropological Introduction to RUclips.
The Machine is Us/ing Us shows how hypertext markup language (HTML) has been connecting us from the early 90s till now. [For more on how HTML evolved, please check two interesting articles out there on the web: 25 Years of Markup: The Evolution of HTML and A Brief History of Markup.] Cursive writing emancipated speech from man in a linear way and started the process of virtualization of communication, so it is very interesting that The Machine is Us/ing Us starts with you writing and showing the constraints of this (uni)linear process and proceeds to show the affordances of online writing. That is to say, you demonstrate how HTML associates items, adds value to content and meaning in addition to allowing incremental connections. Let us not forget that the X in XTML "stood for “eXtensible” (in 25 Years of Markup: The Evolution of HTML), which is why as you show in this video, "data can be exported free of formatting constraints".
Blogging. video posting and, more recently social media platforms became more and more popular because they allowed users to generate and upload content easily (once the technical aspects were mastered). WYSIWYG user interfaces in such platforms and publishing media sophisticated how content was presented, thus increasing its interest and shareability. Later, mobile devices and apps intertwined posting, reading, sharing, liking, video recording, commenting, reposting and curating with our daily lives and social habits.
We now surf a web of more and more fluid data, free of formatting constraints. We are mobile, which is why some years ago I picked up an online alias that reflected that: Miz Mobile. Soon, Generation X (my life experience generation) will be the only one who will know how things were before the advent of the web and HTML enhanced life. Generations Y, Z and upcoming ones were already born into a Machine mashed-up world.
I am a teacher, so I've dealt with the Generations that followed and are following mine. Teachers, schools and teaching, in general, seem to be at loss. They haven't yet figured out the things we're supposed to be rethinking. What will it take to "extend" us? When will that happen? Most of the questions asked in A Vision of Students Today are still frustratingly relevant.
[Ana Margarida Fonseca - pedagogiadoelearning.com/ & Elearning Pedagogy Master's @ UAb - Team Sigma @ Ed. e Soc. em Rede ]
"...some years ago I picked up an online alias that reflected that: Miz Mobile." Now I understand... This corroborates your passion for this new world.
In fact, when I think about it for a while, I see that we were a privileged generation, in which we went through several changes and we have been passing and accompanying! Many have already been lost along the way ... and the most recent generals had no idea what it was like before ... Good job
i'm a lecturer, and i showed this to my students, it helps them understand the meaning of web 2.0 and it's impact on society, thank you.
Ester and Pedro, one of the things we discussed a lot was "Is the machine US? Or Using us?
"
We’re pretty sure that we are the machines, in the sense that we build, operate, execute, repair and even destroy, with the machines we create. So they are the tools and we are the machines who have the power. On the other hand, in the Portuguese language there is an idiom we use, which I can translate “You are a machine!”. We use this when we want to praise someone’s performance or attitude. In English you have something similar which is the expression “like a well-oiled machine”. So, we can prove we are machines. And this is the bright side of this expression and in our opinion this could be the side Mike Wesch wants us to focus on.
Accumulating knowledge is easy for machines, but creativity is a human attribute and it will always be impossible for the machine to follow the same path as the human mind when it comes to inventing new ways of dealing with reality. The ideas suggested by humans will always have interpretations conditioned by emotions and feelings, and the good or bad way they take will also always depend on who interprets them. The network is a set of creative minds that use a resource made available by technology. That's why the machine is us.
But, are machines using us? We don’t think so. Many people fear that machines gain too much power and will start “invading and destroying the human race”, as we’ve seen in so many Hollywood films. We think they are overreacting. We, humans, invented the HTML, the HTML, gave birth to the Web 1.0, the Web 2.0, this global social phenomenon, the Web 3.0, known as the semantic, mobile, phone or flexible web and we are now entering the Web 4.0, where artificial intelligence will take over. So many changes in such a little time.
Those who were born before the cyberspace even existed are witnesses, guinea pigs of all these innovations, but those who are born in the cyberspace era, this virtual world is becoming more and more their real world. Therefore we must adapt and adaptation means changes. We must reshape, redo, and restyle all our areas of life, especially those who play a vital role in the upbringing of our young children. These children will be adults immersed in technology, networks, virtual communities where sharing, exchanging, cooperating and collaborating are the keywords. This in an invitation for education to enter this Era, by breaking through the old, traditional, superior, untouchable, inflexible, closed standards and by rethinking copyright, authoring, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetoric and policies.
Team Lambda
Educação e Sociedade em Rede
MPeL
UAB
Thank you, it helped me a lot to understand my Technology class ... God bless you and thank you for sharing
I watched this video first almost near when it first came out,years later I am still thinking about this.
2022, and still thinking about this during my professional career
This video is probably the best motivational video I've ever seen as a programmer... We are teachers if you think about it. We might not be traditional teachers that teach people, but teachers that teach computers all day, everyday. The best video I've ever seen on RUclips by far!!! Very eye opening...
It's 2023 now. Only 12 million views? This video is one of the classic videos for me from the early days of the web 2.0. I still like to watch it now. I hope this video will be in a museum one day!
We are a group of the Master of Pedagogy at E-learnig, from Universidade Aberta de Lisboa. Portugal, in which we had the privilege of watching your videos through a proposal by Professor António Teixeira.
We consider that we are lucky for that very reason!
In fact, all that technology does is to facilitate and promote new ways of presenting content, created by humans and here Web 4.0 already starts to have some differences, through the mixture of text, images and video, all with the possibility of having more links, hypertext, for even more content spread all over the network.
But we cannot fail to draw attention to the title and the play on words it contains. This title can lead us to two analyzes, a negative view about technology, almost as if Paul Virílio was “present”, and another more positive one, which places us in a prominent position, of global creators, responsible for everything that it passes around us and above all as holders, creators of knowledge sharing.
Lambda Group
MPel
UAB
Just watched this for the first time in 2017 and was still like "Hey, this is a good video."
thats me today :)
That was me today.
WHOA! That throwback to the old days of RUclips back when it ran on Flash Player…
I remember the days when my parents discovered RUclips a few months after me. It really hit me how the world was about to change. How we’d communicate and spend our time.
@LightCan The date this video was posted was January 2007.
and we still haven't learned in 2021.
@@ScumbagDesignerStewggs
This was a well-arranged and thoughtful video. I see it has already been seen by millions of people. That makes me feel better.
MEE BOO🤖
Wesch came to my school @mtsu last year! My digital media teachers show this video to freshmen every year while they sit there and yawn, thinking about lunch instead of the implications of a semantic web.
You must be fairly young.
To an old-timer like myself who wrote code in the early days of the internet, this is a walk down memory lane. We've come so far with this technology in such a short time. It truly is a wonderful time to be alive!
The author, using real screens in a very creative way, leads us to a transformation from written to digital texts, which is provocative as he suggests imagination turned in virtual.
Written text is linear. Is it an affirmation or a provocation? And then, it goes to text is said to be nonlinear. Is it true, maybe due to the reader's trip on a vessel of imagination?
And then...digital text, different, real nonlinear, no need for vessels to getting the reader through an imaginary trip, the movement is for real from one part of the text to another or to a new text anywhere.
The digital text is flexible as it is no longer a block. It can evolve to a more comprehensive subject expanded from selected words (as links) or to a more qualified one looking carefully at a detailed explanation from them. It is virtual, it is made of texts and links and at most of the time has no limits and no size.
And the author leads us further again, nominating the absence of text structure and subject limits as hyper, about all, hypertext, and it is a milestone for web 2.0 because it is the base of HTML, the language of the websites, which started from text form and content editing to sophisticated websites creating.
From this point on, the author leads us to an accelerated race to unlimited data interchange between sites, starting with the creation of XML, which separate text content from text form, allowing information interchange in the network turned in World Wide Web (WWW).
And then, information recovery, how can WWW navigators find information? TAG appears as the solution to reach data, which is very nice but not the whole thing, it is the beginning.
The author, in extraordinarily simple construction, explains that tags we created feed a back database to WWW, so we are teaching the machine and when we create a link, we are teaching it an idea. So, we are the machine and it is a big one as 100 billion times per day we click on a web page.
Finally, the author invites us to think about Web 2.0 as a way to rethink believes from copyright, authorship, identity, commerce to love, family, ourselves.
Luiz Carvalho - Team ÔMEGA ESR/mPeL/UAb
Anyone else watching this in an ESL class?
I can't imagine! Hard enough if English is your first language!
I'm watching it as a result of my linguistic anthropology course XD
I remember watching this back when it was extremely relevant. This song has stuck with me for years and gives me great nostalgia of early online gaming (RuneScape ;D) and learning about a new version of the Internet.
I'm watching this because this guy came to my school to talk and give a lecture. I loved it and was so lucky to meet him.
Funny, I thought democratic governments were supposed to represent "the people", but it seems that the internet is doing a much better job of that than any government out there.
The majority of this video ended up being wrong. Tech-wise, dhtml was able to do a lot of what Ajax was able to do... dhtml just failed to get popular. In terms of “Social media” it is not much different from the aol messenger in the 90s or irc from earlier. Facebook isn’t even much different from its inception. It’s the same news feed now that it was 14 years ago except with more cnn on it and now Trying to make you vote for a democrat. Another concept in this video is “everyone can create their own blog.” This utopia ended up being meaningless because google News mostly only considers liberal-leaning news sites as reliable news sources. Not independent blogs or independent media. Unless you have are super popular , google will not make you visible. From 8 years ago until now, We ended up not rethinking copyright at all. RUclips had to bow to copyright and eventually create copyright filters and systems to remove infringing material rather than allowing rampant copyright infringement on the site. They ended up settling that copyright case that Viacom sued them . What this video didn’t mention is We are rethinking the free speech aspect online with social media giants suppressing speech and shadow banning people with a Certain political ideologies. President Trump showed examples and brought it to general attention, and his attorney general Jeff sessions today announced an investigation into social media giants. this video considered all the great things that may happen but didn’t consider collusion between tech giants to make us all slaves to their ideologies. We need a real open source internet that isn’t controlled and ruled by the same 5 trillion-dollar tech companies. How can someone like Alex jones be un-personned off the internet and we claim in this video “everyone has a voice?” Clearly everyone doesn’t if google and Apple can choose who has a voice. The video says “who will organize all this data? We will.” Unfortunately, the world’s largest advertising companies google and Facebook decided to horde the data themselves to make their founders ultra rich...... We have to rethink all this before it’s too late. An internet bill of rights sounds like a good start.
Lots of good points, but in terms of SEO and SEM, links, shares, and optimization teach the web and get you found. It still works. So, in that he was right. As to privacy, he was right about that too. That said you make excellent points.
Incredible. Each time I see more, understand more, question more. I am showing this to my web workshop in the Diocese of Chicago this Saturday.
My professor just showed this in our class; it fascinated and resonated with me! I've grown up along with the Web, and have known it from the beginning. Thank you for this.
I love the mysterious, techno-ish, eerie sounding song.
Web 2.0 is a medium of communication, instead of just a one-way publishing of information. Its interactivity. Its the possibility of contribution and improvement to the web by anybody. Its expression of thought and opinion. Its a ever-changing community. Its alive.
We watched this in at university for Computer Mediated Communication. I am grateful to the author of its video and to my lecturer who showed it to me.
I watched this video during a web development lecture at University, it really shows how fast the web is evolving.
inspired. examination. inspiring. awakening. teaching. learning. exploring. trespassing. provoking. provactive. truth. I wish I could think of more words off the top my head that explain what the video did. thank you.
Nice. This reflects the complicity of the net that we/I most often take for granted. The amazing thing (I think) about web 2.0 is not only the sharing of different forms of information and the manipulation of it, but the potential for interesting integrations.
The design of this video is simply amazing!
I trying to become an e-tutor and this creative video makes me realize the importance of the Web 2.0
this is still my favorite video on here, and i've seen alot of videos!!!
Amazing how complex ideas are worth looking at and thinking about over and over and over. Then, to revisit some time later - bringing the new perspective that comes with our own transformation over time. Thank you, mwesch!
"We are the Web" article at 3:12... that was something I've looking for for years! I read it once and a year later vaguely remembered it was relevant to a conversation I was having with someone but I obviously couldn't remember which keywords to use or not use and never found it. Thanks!
Today I was at your conference at Georgetown and I really enjoyed it. Congratulations for having such an engaging personality. I would also like to thank you for sharing your pictures and findings of New Guinea.
Doctor Wesch, I think tour video is a big step in understanding out world. We Are experiencing the beginning of the Post-Linguistic Era, and tour work shows it with clearness and authority. Thank you!
What we do and how we do it on Web 2.0 has effects on the trail we leave behind and enables the machine to know us because we teach it about what is important to us. We Consider the “machine” to be an extension of us and, therefore, at our service. But like everything else, it brings challenges to which we have to respond. It is true that we can see our privacy most threatened when we realize the articulation between companies that will provide each other with data about us - "If we do not pay for a product it is because we are the product".
This video is prescribed learning in my Distance Ed course. It's a fantastic watch.
The Internet is no longer a passive experience for many people, but instead it allows anyone to share ideas and contribute to the body of human knowledge.
This has always been possible on the Internet, but until recently you needed a certain amount of technical knowledge to be a contributor. New technology developments (sometimes known as Web 2.0) have made it possible for more people to contribute. In fact, we are doing it right now. We are contributing to the machine, and the machine is us.
Seriously -- anyone debating the value of RUclips should be pointed to this. Amazing.
extremely nice.. got a exam in 30 mins, and you cleared the concept and saved me going through those big text notes. Vincy, INdia
Its like as if I learned many things from this in just one view. Michael Wesch, you sir are a genius.
I just really want to thank the makers of this video, anytime i'm procrastinating or putting off work that i should be doing, i just put this on and i motor on with what i should be doing.
I find the music and themes of the video to not only be relaxing, but inspiring.
It's thanks to this video that i am aware of the direction i'm heading in life.
Thankyou.
Thank you SO MUCH...our web forum is exploring the 2.0 concept right now in order to enhance our presence on the Web.
This explanation takes it straight to the core user without the geek-i-dom.....YES!
I don't usually like videos about how internet works but this one is just awesome :D
It's not about typing. It's about thinking.
The message and the form, both are excellent in tis clip.
Well thought out and shows some cool structural advantages that have changed with digital
A single person can gain more knowledge today with a single click then an entire population ever could over the span of 2,000 years. We are now able to compile lifetimes of information from thousands of perspectives on any given subject. And finally, for the first time ever, anyone from anywhere can share their own information on it as well, thus adding to the knowledge base. It's all a part of human evolution. The common goal for humans to evolve, reshape and eventually recreate ourselves.
I have no clue what the message was but the music, photos and the videos really got my attention. Really cool.
I still fucking love this video. What a change it heralded!
Wow I loved this video. In some cases music can be irritating but on this video it is not only appropriate but enhances the experience. Thanks for sharing this.
This is a very good description of Web 2.0 and everything that come with it.
This is honestly one of the best videos I've ever seen.
That was an excellent video! Not only was it technically flawless, its content was a very serious commentary on the world now, presented in a way anyone can understand... WELL DONE!
It just gets better every time.
2021 gang, this is gold!
Whoa what a time warp! Watching this in 2022 (15 years later) and it's crazy how much has changed since 2006/2007.
I was here for anthropology introduction. Turns out it made sense of my surrounding technologies for me.
Really interesting piece, makes you think about the degree to which we can all communicate without physically communicating with one anothe...
It's another communication revolution. Each time a new type of communication has been developed like the telephone, telegraph, printing press etc... society has been brought closer together and resulted in changes. The internet has brought us all closer together with more opportunities to share our knowledge and ourselves. It's also brought new challenges because of the ability to share more... like copyrightand everything he ends the video with...
This video deserves many, many awards.
This video is simply great. The way you were changing text...awesome. Great work
My computers professor showed this to us at least twice. It's brilliant. (I also love the music.)
short version of "the matrix" well done!!
beautiful, this is truly art and the future, this is one of the rare things that actually makes me proud to live in a time like this, and all i can say to you is... thank you
man, this is the best video i've seen on youtube in awhile.
With always having had wanted to study anthropology this makes it all the more exciting!
Love how we learn more in more ways then one... In school now and it never been the same thing if what I already know, Learning is still fun..
if you enjoyed this, I highly recommended watching his presentation at the library of congress "An anthropological introduction to RUclips"... Its long, but really really well done.
I truly love this video. I was sent here as part of a class but I truly enjoyed it.
The point of this video is to inspire people to learn web coding. and i must say, it is inspirational!
Absolutely brilliant video. Very entertaining, dynamic and open, just like the Web 2.0 should be.
History is not something that is very far behind or happened long ago, but rather the things we do now and keep doing.
History is always in the making. It's in the future, not in the past anymore.
Simply stunning. Great work! Greetings from Barbara Ganley's class over at Middlebury...
This is the most educational video ever made
I have felt this, but never really realized it- great video!
This is awesome! Thanks for refreshing my memory.
I watched your video in lecture. Nicely done and fits in really well to our course!
I think this video is creative and educational. I didn't know the backstage process of posting up info on the web. I really like the ending and how the web is ultimately us and we shape it. How we need to re-think familiy, governance, authorship, copyright etc..Thank You Kansas Professor Wesch.
History has proved that technology has always affected our way of living. Feedback has been taking place between culture and technology since the beginning of time. This has affected us in a way we never imagined 20 years ago.
Suddenly, our way of life has been bond to how we relate with each other using the internet (instant messenger aps, email, social networking sites, etc). This is changing how human relations take place. That englobes the family.
We live in a Sci-Fi status quo already. .
Well done Michael Wesch! Great style and the speed and sound track were just just right.
This was absolutely fantastic..Was put together brilliantly put together, informative and entertaining. Exactly what Web 2.0 is all about x
Stimulating and thought provoking. Thanks for this slab of our future,mwesch!
It's because the 0 in Web 2.0 and the fact that it has so many views.
Great video!
Out of all the tens of thousands of videos I have watched on RUclips, this one is the most sociotechnologically (yeah, not a real word) defining in terms of history and the human spirit.
This is not a video: this is art!
5 Stars!
2nd draft? Wow I'm going to see the final but this was simply amazing. I watched it in silent and was like wow. You explained Web 2.0 so entertainly (guess that's not a word). Then I watched it with sound and I love this music!! What is it? Incredible movie!
Accumulating knowledge is easy for machines, but creativity is a human attribute and it will always be impossible for the machine to follow the same path as the human mind when it comes to inventing new ways of dealing with reality. The ideas suggested by humans will always have interpretations conditioned by emotions and feelings, and the good or bad way they take will also always depend on who interprets them. The network is a set of creative minds that use a resource made available by technology. That's why the machine is us.
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made me cry....brot my back to the 90s thx for putting this on youtube(not dont ask y it brot me to 90s!"
although this work was made three years back is excelent, i mean a lot of changes had happened since that time, but thinking like internet was three years back the video is very clear and deep
Web 2.0, still relevant during a time where Web 3.0 is growing. The Internet is always relevant, always changing, growing; it's a living thing. Much like the ideas prevailed in this video. A great video!
Very moving... But most people simply depend on the machine. Their awareness to it being a sum of evolutionary parts, is mostly benign to the cost of a wireless bill or high-speed connection. When the sheer volume of data becomes so vast that climbing even a small part of it takes a lifetime. Hence the term web, which becomes fundamentally different from the mountain climb that life has been conventionally looked upon as.
Once again. My hats off to you Professor Wesch.