THE WEB AND THE WORLD. The Webby Awards offers a list of 10 web moments that changed the world. Topping the ten is The Dotcom Boom and Bust (1995-2001) which, in one great big seven-year "moment," enables the listmakers to dispense with Google, "new technologies," and "fiber optic cable" while leaving room on the list for Match.Com Booms (2002) as well as Sars Virus Discovered Online (2003), which itself encompasses Wikipedia and Flickr demonstrating "how strangers around the world now use the Web to collaborate on projects both big and small." Yet despite all that funny business of cramming extra items into the Top Ten, there still seem to be significant omissions. What about blogging? What about the growing use of websites as repositories for consumer information? And what about The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest?What do you think?
Photo by David Marc Fischer of computer equipment that, having served its purpose, was put into a car trunk and driven off to parts unknown.
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The whole OJ white Bronco chase was a news and TV moment.
Sorry 9-11 is not a web moment. It's a news moment. They got that wrong.
Putting my mother on email, now that's a web moment.
Doing a search and finding an image of the actual record of my grandfather being logged in at Ellis Island when he was only a child. Now that's a web moment.
-dave
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