Digging through the Geocities Torrent
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“read, write, own” web

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 →

Wed Mar 6, 2024 15:09
Bruce’s Home Page. Part III. Floyd’s Home Place

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 →

Wed Mar 1, 2023 00:21
TOP TEN GEOCITIES SCREENSHOTS 2013 – 2023

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 →

Thu Feb 16, 2023 14:21
Bruce’s Home Page. Part II. Calvin and Hobbes

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 →

Wed Feb 15, 2023 12:26
Bruce’s Home Page. Part I. “Malaysia’s Bill Gates”

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 →

Tue Feb 7, 2023 12:52
Learning 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 of 1993 and default tags. His … Continue reading →

Thu Dec 8, 2022 20:59

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