Project Number
- 102
Title
- The Electronic Postcard
Description
- Digital postcards through the emerging World Wide Web.
Contact
- Judith S. Donath
Affiliation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Address
- MIT Media Laboratory
- 20 Ames Street
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- 20 Ames Street
- judith@media.mit.edu
WWW
- http://postcards.www.media.edu/postcards/
Year
- 1995
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 95 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "With the Electronic Postcard, anyone can send a digital postcard to anyone else in the world who has an email address and access to the World Wide Web."
- "As in the real world, you choose a card from a variety of images, write your message, and send it off. But no physical card is sent. The image and the message are kept online."
- "Because the Electronic Postcard is part of the World Wide Web, the message contents can be hypertext: images and sounds can be part of the message, and there can be links to any other data in the Web."
- "The World Wide Web is potentially an excellent environment for online communities. The Electronic Postcard provides a way to use the World Wide Web for interpersonal communication."
Sight
- Internet-capable PC
Sound
- embedded audio
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 3 - Functional, Reproducable, Adoption
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 311 - communication
Secondary
- 101 - hypermedia, hypertext
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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