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The Art World and the World Wide Web

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<strong>Web</strong>-Based<br />

Gallery Management<br />

While everyone predicted that using <strong>the</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Wide</strong> <strong>Web</strong><br />

would become an important part of everyday life, has anyone<br />

not been surprised by how fast—<strong>and</strong> how profoundly—<strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>Web</strong> has been integrated into almost everything we do?<br />

Think about some of <strong>the</strong> pre-<strong>Web</strong> habits of regular life.<br />

Ordering take-out from a restaurant. Paying bills. Checking<br />

movie times. Keeping yellow pages <strong>and</strong> phone books around.<br />

Is <strong>the</strong>re any activity that hasn’t been replaced, or at <strong>the</strong> very least<br />

made easier or quicker, through some sort of website or app?<br />

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