Interface

Interface questions come into play on a variety of levels with the web. There's the hardware of your computer; mouse, keyboard, screen, etc., that effects your experience with the web. A big color screen and nice speakers give you a different experience than an old B&W with a tiny speaker. There's also your operating system (DOS, Windows, Macintosh, Be, Linux, Unix). This effects how you interact with information in general on you computer, to use Windows is a totally different experience than to use a Mac. Then there's the browser you are using (Mosaic, Microsoft, Netscape), that displays the web pages differently and once again mediate your experience of the web. All of the above effect how you interact with the information on the screen. It may be the same info, but it will mean a little differently in these various formats. The pages you are presently reading are framed so that you can constantly have an index of the links over there on your left and right while you read a variety of pages here. This allows for a different reading experience than if the links were all internal with the pages, and I believe allows for different connotations to be derived from the web.