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When the internet was first becoming a thing, it was very different than it is now. It wasn’t very interactive. To be honest, it barely had any interface design either. The great bulk of websites were just walls of text arranged into a semblance of order by tables with the borders turned off. Interactivity was clicking “bookmark,” “set as homepage” or submitting a “contact us” form. But what the Internet did have was information. Everybody put everything they had up on the web, from help pages to marketing brochures.
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Wodtke, C. (2021). Toward a New Information Architecture: The Rise and Fall and Rise of a Necessary Discipline. In: Resmini, A., Rice, S.A., Irizarry, B. (eds) Advances in Information Architecture. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63205-2_8
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