Digital Literacies - a blast from the past

As you read Glister's description of digital literacies - you might want to remember that he is describing the internet and practices for communication on /through/with the interet from 1997. So how is the internet the same or different? I was particularly struck the section on changing models of access, that the model of access has changed radically from the one of commercial providers Glister describes. For another description of what internet service/communities were like "back in the day" you might want to look at this article on "Commercial Internet Providers" by Geraldine MacDonald. In reflecting on how your relationship to your internet service provider is the same or different from what Glister and MacDonald describe - think about what role the nature of the internet might have played in effecting the move from 1997 - 2008?

Also, as in your reading of Woolley, Heim, and Bolter and Grusin - look for internet topics that are "missing" from Wikipedia. Our list so far includes: remediation, hypermediacy, immediacy, Friday the 13th Virus, and from this reading I found that DELPHI was not listed (unless you count the entry on the site of the Greek Oracle.)