jessica ugwoke

the world wide web is a massive, interconnected system of documents and resources that live on the internet and communicate through links. when you type a url into your browser, you're essentially knocking on a door and asking for a specific document. the web obliges, and that document loads in front of you.

technically, the web runs on three foundational languages: html structures the content, css styles it, and javascript makes it interactive. these three work in tandem every single time you load a page. underneath all of that sits the internet itself, the physical network of cables and servers that transports the data. the web is not the internet. the web lives on top of the internet, the way a city lives on top of the earth.

what makes the web so interesting is its scale and its chaos. no single person or company owns it. it is a space that belongs to everyone, which means it can become anything. artists like maya man are proof of that. her work with digital landscapes pushed me to think about the web as more than a utility. it is a canvas. a place where the boundaries of what a digital space can look and feel like are constantly being challenged and redrawn.

the web democratized information and, in the same breath, turned it into content. it gave everyone a platform and a voice, for better or worse. what started as a tool for sharing knowledge became the internet we know today. i came into this class with some html experience but, i never thought about it like this before.

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