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Interface, Exhibition & Artwork: Geocities, Deleted City and the Future of Interfaces to Digital Collections

Posted by: Trevor Owens

In 2009, a band of rogue digital preservationists called Archive Team did their best to collect and preserve Geocities. The resulting data has became the basis for at least two works of art: Deleted City and One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age. I think the story of this data set and these works offer insights into the …