The Shredder 1.0 website was created by Mark Napier in 1998. In his piece summary Napier explains that in his view the web is not a physically representation of information in the same way a magazine or book is, but instead a temporary graphic created when browsing software interprets HTML instruction. The focus of Shredder 1.0 is to reveal this hidden truth behind the Internet and give the user a new interpretation of common web pages. I think Napier realized that most people that use the Internet have no idea how the Internet works or how web pages are created. His piece gives the user a glimpse into how web pages look on “the inside” while adding his artistic spin to them. It also seems that Napier created a new browser, using the “1.0” adds to that conclusion, but, from what I can tell the shredder interprets each site the same way… the individual source code of each site determines how it will display after being put through the Shredder. That is exactly how a browser works. Napier has just created a browser that is more concerned about making an instant art piece rather than conveying what the creator of the web page was actually trying to show.
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