Terry Flew opens her article with a very intriguing question: what in new media is considered to be “new?” The outlets through which new media is presented these days isn’t exactly “new” in their existence. However, the developments made within each outlet are considered to be “new.” Take Facebook for example. Facebook as a company isn’t exactly considered “new” these days. It’s been around for quite some time. The concept of the Facebook timeline, though, is considered to be “new.”
It’s interesting that Flew mentions Netscape Navigator in her article. I haven’t used Netscape Navigator since middle school that was for experimenting with building websites. After Netscape Navigator came Internet Explorer. Both browsers were used less than a decade ago and these days no one uses Netscape Navigator anymore and Internet Explorer users are becoming more and more extinct as the amount of Google Chrome and Safari users rise dramatically.
Throughout the MySpace era, I learned how to use HTML and began to acquire skills to become a potential web developer. Even though that was back in high school, HTML hasn’t seemed to have become obsolete just yet. That’s amazing considering how quickly new media becomes not-so-new media. I guess it’s because HTML is basically the foundation of web development and will remain so just like how programmers still use C++ to code their work.
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