A Pictorial History of the Internet
I have been doing research in finding a good set of universal symbols - pictograms that can be used to represent objects and concepts in the place of language. I am hoping to be able to use these to create a rudimentary semantic search engine that is entirely free of text - the idea being that this might ultimately prove to be a tool for finding information on the Web for users with low literacy. Anyway, hopefully more on that later. But for now - during my research, I came across this endearing little video - a history of the internet animated in simple icons by Melih Bilgil. Very cool and visually arresting. It has generated a lot of interest, and was even listed in TIME magazine’s Best 50 websites of 2008.
