Digging through the Geocities Torrent
(first published Sep 12, 2019) This workshop offers participants the opportunity 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 the Continue reading
As mentioned in Happy 2009!, because of an error during archiving, around 50,000 pages lost their real last updated information and were marked with the date of their archival. So we decided to change their status from last modified to Continue reading
It s February 27, 2025 IRL and January 1, 2009 in One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age timeline. The last year of GeoCities has started. The closure announcement will come on April 23, 2009. Those who follow the project know that we Continue reading
Those who don’t remember the web before platforms, tend to believe that for 10 years web users stared at their monitors in anticipation. Actually they were made to believe it. First by Web 2.0 proponents, and nowadays by aggressive Web3 Continue reading
Bruce’s Home Page. Part I. “Malaysia’s Bill Gates” Bruce’s Home Page. Part II. Calvin and Hobbes Bruce s home page was the first screenshot published on the One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age Photo Op tumblr blog. Of course that Continue reading
Ten years ago, on the 7th of February 2013 at 11:07 CET, the very first screenshot of a freshly restored GeoCities home page was published on the Tumblr blog One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age Photo Op. Since the start of Continue reading
Bruce’s Home Page. Part I. “Malaysia’s Bill Gates” In the One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age archive, every GeoCities page and file is associated with meta data. A small portion is technical (there is not so much that can be said Continue reading
Ten years ago, on the 7th of February 2013 at 11:07 CET, the very first screenshot of a rescued and restored GeoCities home page was published on the Tumblr blog One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age Photo Op. Bruce’s Home Page Continue reading
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 of 1993 and default tags. His Continue reading
Another passion (ok, obsession) of mine is computers. I bought my first 8 years ago for my son, but he had to fight with mom to get me off of it when he wanted to use it. I got my Continue reading