ABSTRACT
The World Wide Web has already passed through several stages, each of which refashions some earlier media. The Web today is eclectic and inclusive and continues to borrow from and remediate almost any visual and verbal medium we can name. The Internet itself, as a communications system and as a cultural symbol, remediates the telegraph. We still picture the Internet as a reticule of electric lines covering the industrialized world, as the telegraph first did in the nineteenth century, even though the Internet today consists of a variety of data links, including lines above ground, buried cables, and microwave and satellite links. There are a number of possible strategies for remediation, from respectful to radical, and designers for the World Wide Web have adopted each of these strategies at various times. There have been and remain many web sites that highlight other media without any apparent critique.
