The Web Stalker

Author(s): Matthew Fuller, Colin Green, Simon Pope

Institution: Escape, UK

Year: 1997

URL: http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/beyond_interface/fuller_fr.html

Project Description: I/O/D4: The Web Stalker is a speculative software application for reading and manipulating information on the most popular portion of the Internet - the World Wide Web. As Web Browsers become increasingly more bloated and pointless, I/O/D 4: The Web Stalker gives users fast access to this media. "I/O/D 4: The Web Stalker purports to be a new form of web browser that dispels with the page metaphor of traditional browsers and presents urls as a series of circular lines that are the links. I/O/D 4: The Web Stalker relies on spatial references which are both refreshing visual distractions from the html series of links that we have become accustomed to on the web."