The Web Stalker (I/O/D 4)

Art browser by the London collective I/O/D (written in Lingo/Director) that “turns the Web inside out”: it dynamically maps links and extracts text instead of displaying pages; honorable mention at the 1998 Prix Ars Electronica.

Facts

Developer

I/O/D (Matthew Fuller, Colin Green, Simon Pope)

Website

bak.spc.org

Engine

Proprietary

Platforms

WindowsMac OS Classic

Popularity

35/100 — Estimate: widely exhibited net.art work

Sources

1. https://archive.org/download/i-o-d-4-evolt_browsers/README
2. https://moveon.werkleitz.de/en/node/2772
3. https://old.rhizome.org/editorial/2017/feb/17/iod-4-web-stalker
4. https://archive.aec.at/prix/145811/