The Semiotics of Web

"The semiotics of web" was a very interesting article that dealt with the history of signs and how they evolved to have an impact on the world wide web. Semiotics is a language and it's important to know it's history and how it evolved from binary numbers. Binary numbers are also important because it's what helps runs computers. Computers are basically numbers that are interpreted and flashed on the screen. Images are very powerful because they have to do with mnemonics and the art of memory. It's much more easier to remember something when you have an image as a reference. It's much more harder if you have to memorize something that is written, but if you have a diagram or a photo explaining something. It's much more easier to jar your memory and open the flood gates up.

Computer networks and the internet use images and written material, or hyperlinks to relay information from one place to another. The internet was a much different thing when it first developed. Thanks to Tim Burns Lee and the creation of the world wide web and the browser, we can exchange hyperlinks with relative ease from one to another. Icons in the internet world are very important because that's what we associate things with. We see icons everywhere on the web and we automatically know what it is. This goes to show you how semiotics has evolved from what it originally started out with and how new age semiotics is important and used on a day to day basis.