For the moment I
am curious about the term “Internet archaeology” that is about “abandoned” and “forgotten”
websites
and preservation of what is seen as cultural artefacts on the web. As one of
the “fathers” of Internet archaeology Ryder Ripps once
wrote:
“explore, recover, archive
and showcase the graphic artefacts found within earlier Internet Culture."
Two
weeks ago I came to think about a song that was popular when I was a child. The
name of the song is “My
heart goes boom” and was played by the group French Affair. While I was listening
to the song on YouTube I started searching for information about the group because
I was curious if the group was still active. On their YouTube channel French
Affair have six songs/videos and one can see that their channel started on 2014-11-11.
What was far more interesting for me was to see their webpage.
The first time I
saw their website I really felt a “nostalgic kick” when it comes to memories
of how webpages used to look like during early 2000´s regarding design,
layouts, colours, appearance, brightness, pixels etc. Keyword: “Flash player”.
Look at that
wonderful information
And one can still subscribe
for the newsletter
History feels as
best when it is combined with nostalgia :) .
