At least now I somewhat understand what "Anterior Semiotics" was supposed to mean. Somewhat.
As it was mentioned in the article, I've seen breeds of this field of study in many different places under many different titles--namely Linguistics, although there's also cultural anthropology and, to a certain extent, theology as well (I believe the term for it is "iconography"). Whatever the case, semiotics in some form has been present in art for hundreds and thousands of years; indeed, the vast majority of artwork spanning from the Classical age all the way to the High Renaissance was nothing but piles upon piles of representative artwork displaying signs from Mythology or the Bible!
On a basic level, one could also argue that semiotics proves a certain correlation between human interaction and the systems within computer networks. While human life seems boundless and often random, it is actually limited within our own perceptions, which in turn are based by the "signs" we've read in our lives, interpreting them in ways that we've decided to interpret them (either personally or by long-standing tradition). In much the same way, computers are similarly limited by the set "code of conduct" that is set before the first launch.
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