This looks really great!
And, another Geocities related project:
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age - Olia Lialina and Draga Espenschied
http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:28 AM, { brad brace } <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Before there was MySpace, there was GeoCities, the vast
> metropolis of glitchy amateur websites, pulsating with gif
> animations, that were the hub of digital culture for
> countless late-'90s teens. If you haven't found yourself in
> some cobweb-coated corner of the internet in a while and
> landed on one of their sites, that's because Yahoo shut down
> U.S. GeoCities two years ago, just 10 years after acquiring
> it for $3.57 billion at the height of the dot-com boom.
>
> Pained by the potential loss of the record of 35 million
> participants' personal expression, the Internet Archive Team
> launched a project to save the GeoCities data for posterity,
> releasing a 641-GB torrent file worth of GeoCities data on
> the one year anniversary of its closing last October. Now
> this year, Dutch information designer Richard Vijgen
> (http://www.richardvijgen.nl/) has plotted that data along a
> scrollable world map of all those ancient GeoCities. He's
> calling it The Deleted City (http://www.deletedcity.net/),
> "a digital archaeology of the world wide web as it exploded
> into the 21st century." It lives as an interactive
> touchscreen data visualization.
>
>
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