I think that this article has a really interesting perspective on how people view the internet. The website stumbleupon comes to mind, because it is a website that is all about the art of the journey. On stumbleupon, the website shuffles different websites according to the viewer's personal preference and each site brings you to new sites. Usually when I do this it will give me a website, but then I will go off onto my own unknown journey by clicking things within the site which then bring me to new places. While searching for the boon, the wake forms around us and creates a complely new path. Rather than searching for a book directly on amazon.com, maybe if you search the title in google and see where the results lead you, you may end up finding out details about things you never even intended on learning or searching for. Similar to hypertext narratives or other means of interactivity regarding netart, each viewer is going to have their own unique and individual experience when web surfing. This can be applicable to simply visiting various website or utilizing websites like facebook. On facebook, when looking at a friend’s profile, other friends are all over their wall, and from each wall you can click on other people’s walls, which will infinitely continue bringing you to different people’s walls, and everyone’s path on this site is different. Although the internet has become a thing to make life fast and easy, taking the time to navigate through this vast realm is an art within itself. While the infoBRATS take the easy way to navigate through the internet, the infoMONKS are discovering amazing things because the internet holds so many different amazing elements but it takes a little investigating to find them.
Even in this assignment, after reading the article I searched around on the links provided on the assignment website, I ended up back at google which surpringly is decorated like a submarine with animated windows inside and it's the best google has ever looked and I got there entirely by accident because I hit back too many times.
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