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Two artists’ plight to restore the atrociousness of GeoCities
Once upon a time the Internet was a simpler place. Websites had large “Enter” buttons on their front page. Crudely animated gifs of fireworks abound. And people made websites to simply say, “Hey, I made a website!” Then, the Internet grew out of its awkward teens, GeoCities closed down, and that part of our online collective memory faded into the ether, er, net. But all is not lost. As Rhizome explains, two artists, Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, have created a program that mines the wastage, taking screenshots of outdated homepages and uploading them to their Tumblr. They can do…
