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The web is still a fresh source of media for info-hungry cultures. The web started out (and years from now people will look back at this modern age as the web's "primitive period") with almost a strictly informational basis.
Now, it is a field ran by teams of designers and programmers. Every major corporation has a web site, and many small businesses are just now investing time and energy in e-commerce. But just as there has been a backlash against every other corporate movement, there are artists and designers who are making sites that have been created as works of interactive cyber art, built for expression and impression (on the viewer/respondee). The web is the newest medium for artists, and it did not take long before they started creating

web installations.

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