Steve's Space » web technologies http://www.steve-c.co.uk Stephen Courtney's Blog Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:26:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Adobe Zoetrope – The Web Through Time http://www.steve-c.co.uk/2008/12/08/adobe-zoetrope-the-web-through-time/ http://www.steve-c.co.uk/2008/12/08/adobe-zoetrope-the-web-through-time/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:45:15 +0000 Steve http://www.steve-c.co.uk/?p=110 Technology Review has an article about an Adobe project named Zoetrope which promises to give users access to web content through time. It’s a little hard to explain, but essentially it allow you to scroll back and forth through a time-line and look at pages or parts thereof over time.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7C-B7qdClak

It has the makings of a very powerful tool, with the only downsides being its requiring a huge amount of historical data (such as that stored by the Internet Archive), and very fast access to same (which the Internet Archive doesn’t really provide)

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