Web Art: The award winning text.jodi.org

In 1999, The Webby committee awarded jodi.org with the best Net Art Webby Award. Jodi was a collaboration between European artists Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans. The website was a surreal mixture of Bit Dumps, HTML, and PC machine code images. This art project was a farewell to the old days of PC's, Atari 5200, and Commadore 64's and preview of the new world of Web Design.

9/11 Remembrance blog: cobwebs

Afterthe 9/11 attacks on the world trade center alot of pages and websites went up to express what many people felt in this country. The eponymously named 'cobwebs.blogspot.com' was probably put up as an expression of grief and anger, but has not been updated since shortly after the attacks.

It's always New Years for Viggo

It's April and it's still New Years on Viggo Chronicles. I spoke to the webmaster and she tells me that they intend to update the web site, but she is new to the job and have quite a lot to learn. This demonstrates the importance of content management and how content can spoil if it's not kept up to date.

Yahoo: Then and Now.

Yahoo! was one of the early index/search sites. It was founded by a pair of students from Stanford, and it was an example of something that was needed at the time. An index of the available websites and the ability to search on content. This Yahoo! site from October 1996 had an early example of user generated content. The 'Add Url' gave users the ability to add new website to this index. The website is clean, there is not alot of content to generate which was an important factor with most of the home users of the internet using modems. If we compare it to what Yahoo! has now, you can see that even the earliest generation had a sense of personalized content (Yahoo! Los Angeles, Japan, San Francisco or Yahooligans!). There was an early shopping site although the early example was pre-advertisement for Yahoo! The Yahoo Internet Life! was a spin off publication for Yahoo!. Finally, it's rare for a company to keep the same icon for 10 years. The red YAHOO! is exactly the same.

Coloradans for Marriage

This is what you get when you put up a website quickly. Although, it's not quite abandoned, it surely is ironic.

Abandoned and orphaned web pages

"cobweb" is a web made up of short irregular strands arranged haphazardly. The strands gather dust and produce the long fluffy streamers you see in barns and old houses. This site is dedicated to websites with abandoned pages, orphaned sites and old web designs.