Digitalfolkoliadragannns

DO YOU BELIEVE IN USER?

to trully reconnect users and computers, users and developers, users and the history of their favourite medium

it seems that the computer s ultimate purpose is to become an invisible appliance, transparent interface and device denying any charakteristiks of its own. most computing power is used in an attempt to make people forget about computers.

computer use widely spread-computer culture so underdeveloped

digital folklore encompasses the custom, traditions, and elements of visual textual audio culture that emerged from users engagement with personal computer application during the last decade of the 20th and the first decade of 21 cent.

THE PC MUST BE REGARDES AS A MEDIUM WITH A CULTURAL HISTORY SHAPED MORE BY ITS USERS AND LESS BY ITS INVENTORS

...when the computer became merely a machine for work ...the microsoft office a requirement ine life to know, the role of the computer users changed

what we mean by user?_?-? TRON! 1982._ appreciation/glorious definition. One programm asks another: DO you believe in users?/ yes of course if i dont have a user who WROTE me? another scene- the account manager and the hacker are called USER by their programas.

ten years later- the term was demoted to what the fathers of computer technology dubbed "Real Users" (those who pay attention to computers but not interested to learn about them) or "Naive Users", those who simply dont understand the systems

AOl 1993 internet