ROOM 03
The rooms that answered back
One homepage from the early web, hung room by room.
Read the labelWALL A The hanging
Each piece below once lived on a single personal site kept between 2001 and 2007. They are hung here the way they were made: one at a time, by hand.
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ROOM 04
The three calendars kept in one house
Why one homepage needed a month, a year and an episode, all at once
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ROOM 01
The monthly journal, hung whole
What a personal journal looked like before blogs had archives
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ROOM 01
The life pages, year by year
How one homepage filed a whole life by calendar year
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ROOM 01
The themed shelves: beer, books, one iMac
Why early homepages kept single-subject pages
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ROOM 01
The cats, drawn as GIFs
The household cats as resident artwork
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ROOM 02
The aphorism gallery, image by image
Sayings set as pictures, issued like prints
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ROOM 01
The flea market table
A homepage running its own small sale
A note on the room
A personal homepage of the early 2000s was a house you built with your own markup: a journal that reset each month, a bulletin board where strangers signed in, a shelf of themed pages about beer or bookstores or cats. This gallery hangs what the public record kept of one such house, and labels what it cannot show.
Sections
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ROOM 01The Rooms
the pieces of the house, journal, galleries, themed pages
5 works
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ROOM 02The Walls
the hanging itself, frames, GIFs, the hand-made look
3 works
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ROOM 03The Visitors
the guestbook, the BBS, the mailto, the social before networks
4 works
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ROOM 04The Archive
the years 2001 to 2007, the disappearance, what the web lost
4 works
Useful Sources Online
A neighbouring register keeps a register of one cat breed, the same devotion to an animal that once filled a shelf of GIFs here.
One file documents a Japanese workshop, its wood and its seasons, from the same web the original house was built in. a Japanese workshop file
Another room keeps the literature table of a fellowship district, a different kind of hand-made housekeeping.
A plat book surveys a river town lot by lot, patient cartography of a different small territory.
A parish bench tests the practices of one congregation the way this gallery hangs one homepage. a parish bench
A wilderness programs guide sets out plain-language explanations, a neutral framework for comparing program types, and answers to recurring questions, written for readers who want orientation before deciding anything themselves.
WirelessAC Review gathers plain technical writing on IEEE 802.11ac and the Wi-Fi generations after it, covering core basics, generation labels, and network planning guidance for engineers who compare and upgrade wireless networks.
The Larder Index keeps the annotated reading of World-of-Food, the 2007 to 2014 directory of global food links, shelving its country pages, commodity sections, and international bodies as a plain one-column monograph.