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Strike! While they are still unable to see us
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Web Archeology The Web Archeology Project is an "Open Source" art piece. By this I mean that its goal is only met when others in the web community contribute their own creativity to it, to drive it and perfect it. It is a blog that seeks to intervene with the natural entropy of the internet through the enaction of a specific instruction set I have created. Here is the context as stated by the blog: Ancient civilizations have left behind ruins that archeologists aim to bring back to the light in order to better understand humankind. As the world wide web advances, old websites become ancient constructs that fall further and further off the beaten path (move down the search rankings) until they are retaken by the jungle and lost. These sites might not be the glamorous flash and database-driven wonders that we prefer to navigate today, but they are often beautiful in their own right and they can tell us much about our former selves online... our interests, priorities, fears, and dreams... Discover a website indexed by Google at the dawn of its existence! Just over a decade ago Google started crawling the web and mapping out all the great websites. Follow these steps to search for a site, then link to it on this page to increase Google's current awareness of it and return it to its lost glory! Participate in the artwork here. A funny Onion Video here. A similar project (albeit a little more in depth!) here. Check out the Webgrabs!
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