Thursday, March 13, 2014

May the force be with you, an interactive exhibition to remove virtual waters with Kinect

Surely many of you, after seeing the Star Wars films, have tried to make the hand gesture Jedi knights do to move things at a distance. You know, that move with an open hand to create a perfect unseen blast to shoot a troop of robots and soldiers of the Empire. 
What today we are going to teach may not sate your desire to emulate Obi Wan and company but as an interactive installation that combines art and technology is quite interesting. Moving? Projected on a wall virtual water? This is what is proposed display Teo Park.

WWW (World Wide Web) turns 25 years.

The 12th March 1989, the British investigator Tim Berners-Lee described in a report for CERN the protocol for the transference of hypertexts, that the next year became on the "World Wide Web".

Berners-Lee didn´t invented Internet. The global net was created in the 70s, and was released in 1983, for a military project.

The idea was not instantaneous. He started to work in CERN in 1980. His first work was to design Enquire, a data base for order the disconnected information that started to accumulate on the computer´s memory. He left CERN at the end of the 80s, was a short period of time on industry and he returned back in 1989, when CERN was one of the biggest internet companies in America.  It was there when, cooperating with Robert Caillau, he presented a proposal for set a system that allowed to access to other archives by entering its link. It was the beggining of the Web.

Right now, this system keeps 40 billion of web pages, a big number for only 25 years
For see the first web page, click here.