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Hidden Worlds: What Goes on Behind Your Favorite Webpages
http://weburbanist.com/2011/08/10/hidden-worlds-what-goes-on-behind-your-favorite-webpages
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[ By Delana in Architecture & Design & Gadgets & Geek Art & Technology & Futurism. ] Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of your favorite websites? According to Jeff Lam and Josephine Yatar, there is a whole unseen world of activity happening behind every web page – you just have to know where to look for it. (all images via: Back of a Webpage) Lam and Yatar’s project is called Back of a Webpage, and it does just what it says on the tin: shows you exactly what goes on on the other side of the webpages you waste time surfing on. The secrets revealed by these intrepid adventurers are sometimes surprising and sometimes completely predictable. The back of YouTube, of course, looks exactly like the back of a television. Flickr’s backside shows off the distinctive photo paper backing of the various photographs on the front page. Twitter’s back area serves as a break room for the distinctive blue birds which spend their free time drinking, smoking, playing Guitar Hero and –