As meme culture slowly subsumes laptop trends, and whole critically acclaimed genres like vaporwave spiral into punchlines, maybe the mashup is the latest net genre to fall victim to the goofy fate that awaits all internet artifacts.
Until two weeks ago, Joseph Romito, a history buff, was not a person who trolled the Internet for artifacts related to the statesman John C. Calhoun, a 19th-century vice president.
Of course, "they" could be here, and we might not recognize them, any more than ants would recognize the Mona Lisa or, say, the Internet as artifacts of superior beings.
Those who treat the internet as an artifact may suggest that we look at the impact of mediation (or virtualization) on communication and relations of power; for example, the fact that certain social prejudices are circumvented because the individual responding to my online application for a particular service is not confronted with my physical appearance.
But whether we admit it or not, the Internet and its artifacts are not just like their cultural precedents.
Bravo to all involved basically, for this epic artifact of Internet video.
At the time, the Internet mogul said the artifacts were part of the Apollo 11 mission that gave the world "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".
It is evident, too, in the explosive growth of Wikipedia, Craigslist (classified ads), Flickr (photo-sharing), the Internet Archive (historical Web artifacts) and Public.Resource.org (government information).
Our conclusions are consistent for, and independent of, different corpuses used to obtain the word frequencies, i.e. they are shown to hold for traditional corpuses of formal written text, as well as for the Google dataset and cannot be attributed as artifacts of Internet communication.
