Wayback Website PCWorld

I have chosen the magazine and website www.pcworld.com which was a global pc advice giving magazine. The reason I chose this website was because I use to read pcworld and was wondering how it dealt with information giving to the general public that owned a computer at the time. With the arise of computers and how to use the internet back in the 1990s this website would be of popular usage because of the introduction it gives to those that owned a computer. Individuals back in the 1990s would often not be able to afford computers or know what to do. This global magazine is catered towards the adult audience where it offers advice, information, and issues arising with the new kind of technology that is at hand.

With the earliest website time they have of February 14th 1998, the design of the website can be seen as intuitive, but with current standards today, the website can be seen as cluttered. This website can be compared to other websites that were available at the time it would be innovative, because it contained a lot of details and information for a computer user by containing information on how to afford, deal with malfunctions, or improve the overall experience of the user. The clutter aspect of the website was hard to navigate specifically what you want to look for; although it was clutter it was legible for most of the hyperlinks on the page. The formal and content elements of the website is that by being a magazine it focuses on troubleshooting issues that would occur with the new technology at the user’s disposal.

The hyperlinks is abundant as almost everything is linking to an article and that it contains minimal details which is normally a sentence or two that explains the link. There is nothing strange in the hypert...

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...to some later dates that were available to the website it shows a cleaner, less cluttered look. Starting after reaching a new millennium after the supposed “Y2K” event the site made it less clutter and focused to a more horizontal perspective. The vertical design made the website “90s” showing how programmers at the time did not know how to make it not that cluttered and horizontal spacing saving time and optimizing the purpose of the website. The site at the time seemed “New” because of the majority of information it provides to the average consumer; although at the same time it would seem “dated” compared to the kind of designs we look at today. By seeing the cluttered website shows that websites are just throwing information onto the internet trying to get it out to the public while eventually moving into a more cleaner, efficient, and optimized website later on.