etc., recall the word
resoldered here
in a pane of sand.
— R. Kenney
I was shuffling files around recently and came across an archive of my first personal website. It wasn’t Ascent Stage, but a site called hypertext :: renaissance (you see, the lowercase and double-colon were edgy) that I built when I was in graduate school in 1996.
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Clowns at the circus
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You're reading Ascent Stage, by John Tolva.
Man, I remember that page. I remember Voices from the Interface too. 😉
Here’s my retro:
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/old.index.html
That’s more impressive than it deserves to be given it was 1996.
I think you just started a trend John. I’m going to see if I can find my 1997 one, though it may be far too embarrassing.
digital space assembly – 12 years later and nothings changed 🙂
Visual flashback alert! Now…send me your Mark Gage remixes!