Class 01 | Assignment: Net-Art

Make a work of hypertext art, fiction, or poetry, put it online with a simple node based HTTP server and link to it from your blog. Some Inspiration may be found in Rhizome's Artbase, in particular their Hypertext Collection

I made a simple welcome, landing web page design with p5.js sketches and GUI control. >>

>>> Link

Steps on getting the files onto server:

Terminal > ssh root@138.197.66.229
ls (check to see the files in folder)
Open fetch (Put the files that I created (web page) into sketch + the server.js file from Shawn)
ls again (will see files names)
cd filename
type “node server.js”
Chrome> type in the ip address > 138.197.66.229:8080/filename

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Node:

// HTTP Portion
var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs'); // Using the filesystem module
var httpServer = http.createServer(requestHandler);
var url = require('url');
httpServer.listen(8080);

function requestHandler(req, res) {

    var parsedUrl = url.parse(req.url);
    console.log("The Request is: " + parsedUrl.pathname);
        
    fs.readFile(__dirname + parsedUrl.pathname, 
        // Callback function for reading
        function (err, data) {
            // if there is an error
            if (err) {
                res.writeHead(500);
                return res.end('Error loading ' + parsedUrl.pathname);
            }
            // Otherwise, send the data, the contents of the file
            res.writeHead(200);
            res.end(data);
        }
    );
    
    /*
    res.writeHead(200);
    res.end("Life is wonderful");
    */
}

Class 01 | Reading Assignment: As We May Think by Vannevar Bush

The reading talk about human's creation on technology advancement and how we use these machines to store information. In the beginning of the the text, Bush introduced several machines, how they are used, their advantages and disadvantages, and how they were developed. Not until nearly the end of the readings that he finally introduced the ultimate machine, "the Memex", the solutions on how we can store and use information that none of the prior machines failed. It's a personal desk that store your private information and organize them, like a personal hard drive. Bush's envision of the machine is pretty much a world wide web in today's world.

Bush states,

“Science has provided the swiftest communication between individuals; it has provided a record of ideas and has enabled man to manipulate and to make extracts from that record so that knowledge evolves and endures throughout the life of a race rather than that of an individual” (Bush 2). With the ability to preserve information far beyond the lifespan of any individual, the problem then comes of how to access and disseminate that information in a valuable way. As Bush notes, “[a] record if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted” (Bush 3).

"Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, “memex” will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.… [A]ssociative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another, [is] the essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing."

Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, “memex” will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.… [A]ssociative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another, [is] the essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.

In the reading, Bush named quite a number of devices and machines to explain his point on the discovery and its history of the mass technological and theoretical advancement. And I find myself jumping between google search page and wikipedia, pictures and digrams when searched are very helpful while reading the texts.

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