Signals from Our Futures Past

Signals from Our Futures Past

Information Architecture

Tracing IA from from Berners-Lee to Fielding to Wurman to Moreville to Klyn

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Mike Amundsen
Apr 25, 2022
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The 1990s was a heady time for proponents of the Internet. Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web and HTTP/HTML was up and running, Roy Fielding was defining his REST architecture style and Richard Saul Wurman was coining a new term: "Information Architect". In his 1996 book "Information Architects" Wurman offers this definition:

“Information Architect: 1) the…

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