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  2. Web page - Wikipedia

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    Each web page is identified by a distinct Uniform Resource Locator (URL). When the user inputs a URL into their web browser, the browser retrieves the necessary content from a web server and then transforms it into an interactive visual representation on the user's screen.

  3. Computer graphics - Wikipedia

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    The Macintosh remains a highly popular tool for computer graphics among graphic design studios and businesses. Modern computers, dating from the 1980s, often use graphical user interfaces (GUI) to present data and information with symbols, icons and pictures, rather than text. Graphics are one of the five key elements of multimedia technology.

  4. Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture - Wikipedia

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    Elements of the Five Points have been featured in numerous contemporary designs, reinforcing the lasting heritage of his original manifesto. [2] The core ideas of this rationalization still serve as inspiration and foundation for many contemporary architects, who incorporate Le Corbusier’s framework into their projects.

  5. The Image of the City - Wikipedia

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    The book is the result of a five-year study of Boston, Jersey City and Los Angeles on how observers take in information of the city, and use it to make mental maps. Lynch's conclusion was that people formed mental maps of their surroundings consisting of five basic elements. [1]

  6. Mass communication - Wikipedia

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    In social science, mass communication is related to communication studies, but has its roots in sociology.Mass communication is "the process by which a person, group of people or organization creates a message and transmits it through some type of medium to a large, anonymous, heterogeneous audience."

  7. Video editing - Wikipedia

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    [5] this process was used for about fifty years and helped advance video editing. In the 1950s, video tape recorders (VTR) were invented and it was a defining element in the advancement of video editing. The VTR was the first device to use magnetic tape and was revolutionary due to how it recorded video.

  8. Hypertext - Wikipedia

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    Hypertext 3.0 Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization: Critical Theory and New Media in a Global Era (Parallax, Re-Visions of Culture and Society). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8257-9. Buckland, Michael (2006). Emanuel Goldberg and His Knowledge Machine. Libraries Unlimited. ISBN 978-0-313-31332-5.

  9. Sound - Wikipedia

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    This identity is based on information gained from frequency transients, noisiness, unsteadiness, perceived pitch and the spread and intensity of overtones in the sound over an extended time frame. [10] [11] [12] The way a sound changes over time provides most of the information for timbre identification. Even though a small section of the wave ...