Cameron's World
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August 2015 · GeoCities / web collage · original online
Cameron Askin excavated text and images from GeoCities archives and assembled them into a towering, clickable landscape: glittering galaxies, cats, dragons, homemade shrines, and introductions by people who had something wonderfully specific to put online. Published in August 2015, it is a new artwork made from older web fragments, not an untouched 1990s homepage. Follow its links to the archived neighbourhoods behind the collage.
WHY IT STILL MATTERSWhere a platform gives everyone the same profile box, these fragments preserve the impulse to build a room of your own. This is not an essay about the lost human web; it lets you wander through its unruly visual language.
“A love letter to the Internet of old” — the project's own introduction.