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1/4 🎉To celebrate our 25th Anniversary, we commissioned @GIFmodel to create a new work contemplating 2046 & the future of the Internet.
😻Behold "Perpetual Calendar" 📆--allowing you to flip thru past & future with @GIFModel's rich vernacular graphics.
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2/ Internet Artist, Olia Lialina (@GIFModel) looks to the early web tradition of wishing your friends a good/happy/sexy day, often with glittering graphics.
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3/ At @GIFModel's website, you can enter a date in the past or future and experience the vernacular web graphic associated with that day. Just enter a new date at the top of the screen:
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LIVE w/ @TheRickWilson: "The @internetarchive is tremendously important. It's got some independence to it. It has a longer time horizon. Authoritarians HATE people with long memories..."
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2/ @TheRickWilson: "There are not a lot of market incentives to record our history. The $ to eyeball ratio is too low. Cultures lose when they don't have access to their own history." #IA2046
3/ @TheRickWilson: "The @internetarchive is providing a place for amateurs to preserve something that's important to them. It might be niche, but eventually someone may want to see it." #IA2046
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1/1 In 2028, the Internet Archive lost a major lawsuit vs. a cartel of corporate publishers after many appeals. #IA2046
2/3 Schools had to pay increasingly high licensing fees to digital publishers. Many school libraries closed, and schools couldn't afford to provide children with free books in the classroom. Those from lower income families were affected most severely. #IA2046
3/3 No wonder we are seeing such inequality now, with social mobility and the gap between rich and poor at its worst this century. But we are fighting to get books and knowledge back to the people. #IA2046
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1/4 It probably sounds bizarre to the younger generation, but it wasn't always possible for companies to copyright facts... #IA2046
2/4 The cartel that controls the flow of truth was only created in 2026. Before that, news and information didn't belong to anyone and you could just access it for free online. #IA2046
3/4 Facts really became the privilege of the wealthy when News Inc. put all of its online content behind paywalls and ceased print production, and the few remaining media outlets followed suit. #IA2046
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1/4 How did things go so wrong? We think it all started with the repeal of Section 230 back in 2022. Information-sharing organizations became liable for all content uploaded by third parties and most were bankrupted with legal fees... #IA2046 Image
2/4 @EFF tried to fight back against the lawsuits that followed the repeal of Section 230, but it was just too many... #IA2046 Image
3/4 Then reputation management firms started suing individuals - Wikipedia editors, Redditors, content creators. Only big corporations could afford to have a voice and our online communities were destroyed. #IA2046 Image
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