Wednesday, October 21, 2009

http://www.cracked.com/photoshop_90_the-world-tomorrow-if-internet-disappeared-today/

This is a page with various Photoshopped images providing tounge-in-cheek theories on what would happen to the world if "The Internet disappeared today". Overall, I found this to be a hilarious look at how much we depend on the Internet nowadays. My personal favorite images are the "Twitter pigeons" (#18), the "ebay store" (#15), and the "white message board" (#13). It's really interesting how the Internet has not only changed the way we see the digital world, but the way we see the world as a whole. On a computer screen, stuff like the things depicted in the images would be perfectly normal, but they become much more ridiculous once they are kidnapped from the Internet and put in the real world. This fits in with what we've been discussing in class recently about context; the various elements in each image aren't very funny on their own, but when put together, they become funny within the context of the image.

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