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28 Oct, 4 tweets, 5 min read
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.
haveagood.today
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.
blog.archive.org/2021/10/20/oli…
#IA2046
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:
haveagood.today
@IA2046
4/ In the vivid Internet art of Olia Lialina, you can enter a date and see what treasure it brings.
👉haveagood.today
Thanks @GIFModel for allowing us to commission this new work on a milestone date for @InternetArchive.
#InternetArchive25

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