a technobiography

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A technobiography:

A stream of important technological progressions in my life:

Learning grammar, how to spell, Computer games on an apple, too poor to get a computer, - got a TV instead, sister's computer, following princess di's death from the wreck, taught self html, published art, angelfire, first email account, nintendo.com, im chatting, role playing, alternative source of entertainment, reboot, paint shop pro, creating animated gifs, learning how to make jpegs not look jpeggy (single frame gifs), photoshop, dreamweaver, first webpage created with wysiwyg, redesigning it in one night, working on Centenary's english dept website, college classes (cyberculture, multimedia writing and lit, communication design, art studio multimedia design, animation design, ecology technology and culture), writers: ray kurzweil, marshall mccluhan, scott mccloud, hell.com, donna haraway, umberto eco, marvin harris, evan eisenberg, jeffery zeldman, eric meyers, benjamin, philip k. dick, william gibson, cronon, webcomics, academic papers linking ecology technology and culture, blogging, websteaming.

These things connect linearly but as the timeline moves on more concepts intersect. How can I represent this in a more nebulous manner that reflects how I connect them in my brain (ex. too poor to get a computer, following princess di's death from the wreck, to college classes (cyberculture, mulimedia writing and lit, ETC), to writers (marvin harris, evan eisenberg)). Naturally this comes easiest in some sort of visual context, but what about representing it in a different way? A sound collage - the sounds could merge into one sound sort of like a re-mix of ideas or a mash-up of time. Hypertext is naturally built to make something like this orderly, but it is difficult to link to more than one thing with out repeating our initial location. So our web would look something like this:

creating animated gifs - psp
creating animated gifs - photoshop
creating animated gifs - published art
creating animated gifs - benjamin

It becomes less like a web and more like a list with connections.

In essence, it is the connections that have brought me here to study technology, and less the events. These intersections have created an interesting potion of knowledge that has caused me to be passionate about something.