8 days, 200’000 users, 10 years, 25 Terabytes
In the end of 2011 I wrote an article about the Dutch social network Hyves and its users — Many backgrounds of Hyves. It ends with the question: But before it is shut down, will the company give its...
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Meanwhile, the Geocities Research Institute got its own ex-libris. The stamp was designed by the inimitable Manuel Bürger, designer of the Digital Folklore Reader, Transmediale festival, Shake Your...
View ArticleGIFs, Animated GIFs and GIFs formerly known as Animated
We live in a world where people say “GIF”, but mean “Animated GIF”. In the 1990’s, and during the first years of the new century — or lets say before this format’s glorious comeback — there were two...
View Article“looks so different…almost like fb”
Myknet is on WordPress now. This news will not make it into international headlines. If you don’t belong to rural and remote First Nations of Ontario you are not on myknet.org, and probably never ever...
View ArticleSkywriting at Megarave
Skywriting (excerpt) 86 video/MIDI sound captures of Geocities home pages featuring welcome_plane.gif Megarave Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland 28 August – 16 November 2014 Thanks to the Geocities...
View Article“My corner of the internet”
Why to make home pages today Transcript of my talk given at superglue.it launch on the 3rd of October 2014 at WORM, Rotterdam It is a great feeling to speak at the event which launches a device packed...
View ArticleDigital Folklore at HMKV, Dortmund
We are happy to announce that from the 25th of July till the 27th of September 1st of November 2015, the world’s first Digital Folklore exhibition will be on display at HMKV in Dortmund. Opening:...
View ArticleDreaming The Chinese Web
“Dreaming the Chinese Web (1996-1997)” is a magic series of nine 800×600 GIF animations composed with graphic elements sampled from the first year of GB2312 GeoCities. The compositions preserve the...
View ArticleIt Looks Like Fun, But it is a Sad Exhibition
After Kurt Eichler, Inke Arns and Dragan Espenschied wished a lot of fun to the first visitors of the Digital Folklore Exhibition, I allowed myself some melancholy: You will see a lot of bright,...
View ArticleIn Cyberspace Pixels are Free
“In Cyberspace Pixels are Free” is the wisdom from the first real web design textbook — Kreating Killer Websites by David Siegel (1996). It became the name of the installation Merz Akademie student Max...
View ArticleDo you believe in user 711391?
Simon Baer, since some days a former student of mine, finished his studies with a work that contributes to several contemporary “fields of concern” – big data, surveillance, the right to be forgotten,...
View ArticleWhere are my circles?
There is nothing I would care to rescue from my Google+ account. I think last time I logged in years ago. Still I followed the link in Gooogle’s “hurry up and download” email, but only to play one last...
View ArticleA Day in One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
This workshop offers to explore the early web through the unique interface of the GeoCities Research Institute, under the guidance of Olia Lialina, net artist, vernacular web researcher, and keeper of...
View Article“geocities” based arts
On occasion of Jay Tholen’s talk at Merz Akademie that Dragan and me will moderate, I try to collect in one place projects that explicitly deal with early web elements, motives and tropes. We will not...
View Article“The Point of Diminishing Returns”
28 Feb 2020 @BerkeleySETI: “We’re now on TikTok!” 02 March 2020 BerkeleySETI: “basically, we’ve analyzed all the data we need for now.” On March 2nd 2020, the SETI@home project announced its...
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False Memories, Olia Lialina, 2020 For Internet Explorer 6, Windows 2000, and virtual machine My professional life happens in two dimensions. In IRL one it’s the end of Summer 2020, where Microsoft...
View ArticleLearning HTML/CSS in Historical Context
I give a seminar Traditions and Revolutions in Web Design this semester. On the first day we made our first pages by modifying the code of Univ.-Prof.i.R. Dr. sc. nat.Werner Römisch’s page. In spirit...
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