Notices by olia lialina (gifmodel@olia.geocities.institute)

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It's April 24, 2009 in One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age timeline. Yesterday Yahoo! has informed its user about the closure. if you follow or visit https://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com/
next days you'll see people's reactions to the news. I wrote about it in the past, but now it's so to say "live".

“Sorry to see you go” (2019)
https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/6369
"It has been a wonderful 12+ years" (2014)
https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/4558

"It feels like I'm attending a funeral. But the funeral isn't just for Geocities... It was more than just another lousy webpage from the 1990s. It was who I was 12 years ago. The places I linked...the places that linked to me"

Two years ago I gave an interview to be published in "Digital Art:1960s -- Now" by V&A. Just published
It ends with the statement I still stand for.

I can imagine it can be of interest to someone who follows me or follows you.

"We are looking for a person with an established and outstanding record in art or design to take over the direction of the Games class in the department of Visual Communication at the Kunsthochschule Kassel."

https://stellen.uni-kassel.de/jobposting/6a3ecb8503115d15f6fffe96cd2417e55ee0dbdc0?ref=homepage

"If Adorno could have seen Lialina’s advent calendars, I have no doubt he would have been left scratching his baldpate."

https://dispatchreview.info/Something-for-Everyone

Q&As after my recent talk make evident that those who don’t remember the web before platforms, tend to believe that for 10 years web users stared at their monitors in anticipation.

Let me refute this picture by sharing some screenshots of the websites from the One Terabyte of the Kilobyte Age archive that I tagged "before_..."

I start with

before_instagram

before_twittr

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One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age Photo Op is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month!
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TOP TEN GEOCITIES SCREENSHOTS 2013 – 2023

https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/7196

In this post I collected 10 most popular screenshots of the first 10 years. We turned many into video with sound, some pages are restored and can be explored on the live web.